watchmantower

Watchman Tower is a modern monitoring platform that helps you track uptime, response time, performance, and anomalies across your websites. 
This plugin connects your WordPress site to Watchman Tower and automatically sends lightweight heartbeat and performance metrics at fixed intervals.
Features: 
– Monitor your WordPress site uptime and performance 
– Automatic heartbeat checks 
– Lightweight metric sending (no impact on site speed) 
– Secure token-based authentication 
– Easy configuration panel in WordPress Settings 
– Compatible with caching plugins and CDN environments 
– Ideal for agencies managing multiple WordPress sites
You need an account at <a href="https://www.watchmantower.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Watchman Tower</a> to use this plugin.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the Watchman Tower monitoring platform in order to create accounts, send heartbeat signals, and retrieve site status.
The following API endpoints are used:
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https://api.watchmantower.com/api/auth/wp/create-account 
– Used to create a Watchman Tower account directly from WordPress. 
Data sent: site URL, admin email, optional full name, optional password.
</li>
<li>
https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat 
– Sends periodic uptime and performance heartbeat signals. 
Data sent: WordPress version, PHP version, plugin list, server performance metrics, response time, site URL, integration token.
</li>
<li>
https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat/unlink 
– Used when disconnecting the WordPress site from Watchman Tower. 
Data sent: integration token and site identifier.
</li>
<li>
https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/status 
– Retrieves the current connection status for the site. 
Data sent: integration token.
</li>
</ul>
All requests are authenticated with a secure token stored inside your WordPress database.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
To learn more about how data is handled, please refer to:
<ul>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://www.watchmantower.com/privacy-policy</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://www.watchmantower.com/terms-of-service</li>
</ul>

Watchman Tower

Lightweight WordPress integration for Watchman Tower. Send heartbeat, performance metrics, and uptime signals automatically.

Aaron Edwards

For live environment no-latency massively-scalable application metric tracking and code profiling via <a href="http://codeascraft.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/" rel="nofollow ugc">Etsy’s StatsD</a> + Graphite.
Tracks everything in WordPress and Multisite:
<ul>
<li>Logins (success, fails, logout) </li>
<li>Password resets (attempts/successes)</li>
<li>User count (guage)</li>
<li>Users (registrations, spam, ham)</li>
<li>Posting (publish, trash, delete)</li>
<li>Commenting (received, approved, trashed, spam, unspam)</li>
<li>Attachments (Add, edit, delete)</li>
<li>XML-RPC (every command individually, you can rollup)</li>
<li>Multisite blog count (guage)</li>
<li>Multiiste blog actions (new, spam, ham, archive, unarchive, delete, undelete)</li>
<li>Page generation times</li>
<li>Query count (type + time when SAVEQUERIES defined)</li>
<li>Remote HTTP requests (count, time – by host)</li>
<li>WP Cron calls</li>
<li>WP Emails</li>
<li>and more!</li>
</ul>
Requires <a href="https://github.com/etsy/statsd" rel="nofollow ugc">StatsD</a> on localhost or a server on your private network.
You can also call the $statsd global class in other plugin/theme code for instant tracking of any application metric. See API usage instructions: https://github.com/domnikl/statsd-php/blob/develop/README.md
Contribute at <a href="https://github.com/uglyrobot/wordpress-statsd" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
<h3>To Do</h3>
Want to implement batch collection and send of metrics via one or minimal UDP packets required based on connection time.

StatsD WordPress Client

We use on hundreds of high traffic websites and it's quite useful for monitoring and debugging.



Proven to work well

For no-latency massively-scalable WP application metric tracking and code profiling via Etsy's StatsD + Graphite.

Watchman Tower vs StatsD WordPress Client