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Overview

Watchman Tower provides alerting workflows to help teams respond when monitored assets need attention. Alerts can be configured per monitor so the right channels receive the right signal at the right time.
Notification options can vary by workspace configuration and connected channels. Configure alerts based on the criticality of each monitored asset.

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Per-Monitor Notification Settings

Every monitor can have unique notification preferences:
Monitor notification settings
Configure for each monitor:
  • Recovery events - Get notified when an asset returns to a healthy state
  • Failure events - Receive alerts when an asset is down, degraded, or otherwise needs attention
  • Channel selection - Choose from the notification channels available in your workspace
  • Enable/Disable - Turn notifications on or off per event type

Select Your Monitor

Navigate to the monitor you want to configure

Open Notification Settings

Click on the Notifications section

Choose Alert Types

Enable the failure and recovery events relevant to that monitor

Select Channels

Choose the channels that should receive those alerts

Save Settings

Your notification preferences are saved automatically

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Managing Notifications

Watchman Tower supports both monitor-level configuration and broader workspace-level alert management:
Bulk notification settings
Typical alert management workflows include:
  • Reviewing monitor coverage across your monitored assets
  • Checking notification settings for each monitor at a glance
  • Updating alert routing as teams or priorities change
  • Filtering by asset or event type when troubleshooting noisy alerting
  • Standardizing notifications across similar monitors when operationally useful
The exact controls available depend on the channels and monitoring options currently enabled in your workspace.

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Available Notification Channels

Email Notifications

Detailed email alerts with full incident information

Slack Integration

Real-time alerts in your Slack channels

Push Notifications

Free mobile app notifications on iOS and Android

SMS Alerts

Instant text messages for critical incidents

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Alert Types

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Site Down Alerts

Triggered when a monitor detects that an asset is down or not responding correctly: What triggers it:
  • Connection timeout
  • HTTP error status codes (500, 502, 503, etc.)
  • DNS resolution failure
  • SSL/TLS errors
What you’ll receive:
  • Alert timestamp
  • Error type and message
  • Affected URL
  • Quick link to view details

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Site Recovery Alerts

Triggered when an asset returns to a healthy state after an incident or failure: What you’ll receive:
  • Recovery timestamp
  • Total downtime duration
  • Number of failed checks
  • Current status confirmation

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SSL Expiry Warnings

Watchman Tower can surface SSL expiration risk so teams have time to renew certificates before they become incidents.

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Domain Expiry Warnings

Watchman Tower can also surface domain expiration risk so important domains do not quietly lapse.
See Domain Monitoring for more on expiration visibility and domain-related health context.

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Notification Preferences

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Multiple Channels

You can enable multiple notification channels for redundancy: Example configuration:
  • ✅ Email - For detailed information and records
  • ✅ Push - For instant mobile notifications
  • ✅ Slack - For team awareness
  • ☐ SMS - Reserved for critical production sites only

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Severity-Based Notifications

Configure different channels based on monitor importance: Production Sites:
  • Use multiple channels for high-priority incidents
Staging Sites:
  • Use lower-noise channels that still keep the team informed
Development Sites:
  • Keep alerting lightweight unless the environment is business critical

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Best Practices

Begin with Site Down alerts on Email and Push. Add more channels as needed to avoid notification overload.
SMS costs money per message. Reserve it for your most critical production monitors only.
Always enable Site Recovery alerts so you know when issues are resolved without checking manually.
After setting up notifications, trigger a test alert to ensure everything works correctly.
Periodically review your notification settings and adjust based on what’s working.
As your monitoring footprint grows, review alert settings regularly so routing stays aligned with operational priorities.

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Turn Off All Notifications

Need a break or performing maintenance? You can temporarily disable all notifications:
  1. Go to Notification Settings
  2. Click “Turn Off All Notifications” button
  3. All alerts are paused until you turn them back on
This disables notifications for all affected monitors. Monitoring continues, but your team may not receive alerts until notifications are re-enabled.

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Next Steps

Email Alerts

Configure email notifications

Slack Integration

Set up Slack notifications

Push Notifications

Get mobile app notifications

SMS Alerts

Set up text message alerts