Watchman Tower

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 Watchman Tower to use this plugin.

External Services

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:

• 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.

• 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.

• https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat/unlink
  – Used when disconnecting the WordPress site from Watchman Tower.
  Data sent: integration token and site identifier.

• https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/status
  – Retrieves the current connection status for the site.
  Data sent: integration token.

All requests are authenticated with a secure token stored inside your WordPress database.

Privacy

To learn more about how data is handled, please refer to:

• Privacy Policy: https://www.watchmantower.com/privacy-policy
• Terms of Service: https://www.watchmantower.com/terms-of-service

1. Upload the plugin ZIP via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
2. Activate the plugin
3. Go to Settings → Watchman Tower
4. Choose one of two options:
   • Create a new account: Sign up directly with your email (password optional)
   • Use existing token: Paste your Watchman Tower integration token
5. Complete the connection setup
6. Heartbeat and performance metrics will begin automatically

1.0.1

• Added custom header metadata to all outgoing API requests for improved request tracking.
• Minor code cleanup and stability improvements.

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Lightweight heartbeat system
• Plugin settings page
• Secure authentication
• Scheduled metric sending