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Overview

Watchman Tower provides flexible notification system to keep you informed about your site’s status. You can configure alerts for each monitor individually, choosing which channels to use and when to receive notifications.
Each monitor has its own notification settings. You can configure different alert channels for different monitors based on their importance.

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Per-Monitor Notification Settings

Every monitor can have unique notification preferences:
Monitor notification settings
Configure for each monitor:
  • Site Recovery - Get notified when your site comes back online
  • Site Down - Receive alerts when your site goes down
  • Channel Selection - Choose Email, SMS, Slack, or Push notifications
  • 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 alerts for Site Down, Site Recovery, or both

Select Channels

Check the channels you want to use: Email, SMS, Slack, Push

Save Settings

Your notification preferences are saved automatically

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Bulk Notification Management

Manage notifications for all your monitors in one place:
Bulk notification settings
The bulk management interface lets you:
  • View all monitors in a single table
  • See notification settings for each monitor at a glance
  • Edit multiple monitors without navigating between pages
  • Channel usage summary - See which channels are most used
  • Quick filters - Filter by entity name or notification type
  • Batch updates - Update settings for multiple monitors at once
What you can see:
  • Entity Name (Monitor/Site name)
  • Notification Name (Site Recovery, Site Down, etc.)
  • Email checkbox
  • SMS checkbox
  • Slack checkbox
  • Push checkbox
  • Is Active toggle

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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 your monitor detects your site 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 your site comes back online after being down: What you’ll receive:
  • Recovery timestamp
  • Total downtime duration
  • Number of failed checks
  • Current status confirmation

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SSL Expiry Warnings

Automatic alerts before your SSL certificate expires: Alert schedule:
  • 14 days before expiration
  • 7 days before expiration
  • 3 days before expiration
  • 1 day before expiration

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Domain Expiry Warnings

Automatic alerts before your domain registration expires: Alert schedule:
  • 30 days before expiration
  • 14 days before expiration
  • 7 days before expiration
  • 3 days before expiration
SSL and Domain expiry monitoring is automatic for all monitors. See Domain Monitoring for more details.

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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:
  • Enable: Email, SMS, Slack, Push
  • Get notified immediately through all channels
Staging Sites:
  • Enable: Email, Slack
  • Get notifications without SMS costs
Development Sites:
  • Enable: Email only
  • Keep it simple for dev environments

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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.
When you have many monitors, use the bulk management interface to update settings efficiently.

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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 monitors. Your sites are still monitored, but you won’t receive any alerts.

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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