watchmantower

<p>Watchman Tower helps agencies and multi-site managers monitor multiple WordPress client websites from a single dashboard.</p>
<p>Track uptime, response time, SSL certificates, domain expiry, and WordPress health signals, before your clients notice problems.</p>
<p>Designed for growing agencies, Watchman Tower lets you start with 10 sites for free and upgrade as your portfolio expands.</p>
<p>Installation takes seconds. Create a Watchman Tower account directly from the plugin settings (no password required to start) or connect instantly using an existing integration token.</p>
<p>Once connected, your WordPress site sends lightweight heartbeat signals including performance metrics, version information, update statuses, and health diagnostics. All monitoring results and alerts are visible in your Watchman Tower dashboard.<br />
All monitoring results and alerts are visible inside your Watchman Tower dashboard:</p>
<p>https://app.watchmantower.com<br />
More details: https://www.watchmantower.com</p>
<p>Watchman Tower is ideal for individual site owners, developers, and agencies.<br />
The platform supports <strong>up to 10 monitored sites for free</strong>, making it one of the most accessible monitoring solutions for WordPress users.</p>
<p>This plugin is lightweight, secure, cron-friendly, CDN-compatible, and optimized for high-performance environments.</p>
<h3>⭐ Key Features</h3>
<h4><strong>Core Monitoring</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>24/7 uptime monitoring  </li>
<li>Response time tracking  </li>
<li>Latency breakdown (DNS, TLS, TTFB)  </li>
<li>SSL certificate expiry alerts  </li>
<li>Domain expiry alerts  </li>
<li>Multi-region monitoring (global probe checks)  </li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>WordPress-Specific Monitoring</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress core update alerts  </li>
<li>Plugin update alerts  </li>
<li>Theme update alerts  </li>
<li>PHP version tracking  </li>
<li>Active plugin list reporting  </li>
<li>Cron health checks  </li>
<li>Security-sensitive change detection  </li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>Integration Features</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic site registration with Watchman Tower  </li>
<li>Secure token-based communication  </li>
<li>Lightweight heartbeat system (no performance impact)  </li>
<li>Cache-compatible and CDN-safe request structure  </li>
<li>Manual “Send Heartbeat Now” action  </li>
<li>One-click unlink functionality  </li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>Agency & Multi-Site Support</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Manage all client WordPress sites from one centralized dashboard  </li>
<li>Start with 10 monitored sites for free  </li>
<li>Upgrade seamlessly as your agency grows  </li>
<li>Share public status pages with clients  </li>
<li>Configure alerts via Email, Slack, Push, and SMS  </li>
</ul>
<p>You need a Watchman Tower account to use this plugin.<br />
You can create one directly inside the plugin settings screen or by visiting:</p>
<p>https://app.watchmantower.com</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the Watchman Tower monitoring platform in order to create accounts, send heartbeat signals, and retrieve site status.</p>
<p>The following API endpoints are used:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>https://api.watchmantower.com/api/auth/wp/create-account<br />
– Used to create a Watchman Tower account directly from WordPress.<br />
Data sent: site URL, admin email, optional full name, optional password.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat<br />
– Sends periodic uptime and performance heartbeat signals.<br />
Data sent: WordPress version, PHP version, plugin list, server performance metrics, response time, site URL, integration token.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat/unlink<br />
– Used when disconnecting the WordPress site from Watchman Tower.<br />
Data sent: integration token and site identifier.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/status<br />
– Retrieves the current connection status for the site.<br />
Data sent: integration token.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>All requests are authenticated with a secure token stored inside your WordPress database.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>To learn more about how data is handled, please refer to:</p>
<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

Centralized WordPress monitoring for agencies. Track uptime, performance, SSL, and site health across multiple client sites.

MattGeri

<p>Watchtower is a plugin that monitors your WordPress website and alerts you of any issues that show up unexpectedly. Think of it as your WordPress guardian angel.</p>
<p>While we’re still quite fresh, we’re constantly growing and expanding the features of the plugin. We currently support uptime monitoring, performance auditing/tracking and alerts/notifications.</p>
<p>Watchtower is free but there is a <a href="https://usewatchtower.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro plan</a> which allows you to super charge the features of the plugin to include things such as SMS sending and faster alert/audit times.</p>
<h4>Uptime Monitoring</h4>
<p>Watchtower notifies you when your WordPress website is down. Once connected, we’ll constantly ping your WordPress website and notify when it is unavailable or returning an error.</p>
<h4>Performance Monitoring</h4>
<p>Performance can the difference between a user continuing to browse your website and clicking the close tab button. It also helps you rank better in the search engines and improve your SEO. Watchtower lets you know exactly where you stand in terms of performance.</p>
<h4>Web Vitals</h4>
<p>Our performance metrics are powered by Web Vitals by Google. Google has developed key metrics around performance of websites called <a href="https://web.dev/vitals/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Vitals</a>. We track these metrics on an ongoing basis and report the results back to you.</p>
<h4>Notifications</h4>
<p>Configuring notifications is easy in Watchtower. Add as many email, SMS or Whatsapp contacts as you’d like and they’ll all receive alerts when activated.</p>
<h4>Reporting</h4>
<p>Watchtower reports on uptime issues and performance directly from your WordPress dashboard. You’ll be able to check your stats over a given time period and see a list of alerts that have been sent.</p>
<h4>Pro Plan</h4>
<p>As mentioned, Watchtower is free. If you’d like faster alerting, SMS alerts and other more advanced features you can upgrade your account. Check out the <a href="https://usewatchtower.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Watchtower</a> website to see the Pro features that are available and the pricing.</p>
<h4>Icon Credit</h4>
<p>The Watchtower icon was created by <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freepik</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.flaticon.com</a></p>


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