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What is Watchman Tower?

Watchman Tower is a full-stack monitoring SaaS platform designed to keep your web applications, APIs, and services healthy. It provides real-time monitoring, intelligent alerting, and deep performance insights from a global network of monitoring servers.

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Core Capabilities

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Uptime Monitoring

Monitor HTTP/HTTPS endpoints with configurable intervals (30s to 24h). Each check validates:
  • Response status codes
  • Response time
  • Content validation (optional)
  • Header checks

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Performance Tracking

Track critical performance metrics:
  • Time to First Byte (TTFB)
  • Full page load time
  • DNS resolution time
  • TCP connection time
  • SSL handshake time

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SSL Certificate Monitoring

Automatic SSL certificate tracking:
  • Expiration dates
  • Certificate chain validation
  • Issuer information
  • Alert thresholds (7, 14, 30 days)

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Multi-Region Probing (Coming Soon)

Run checks from 15+ global regions:
  • North America (US East, US West, Canada)
  • Europe (London, Frankfurt, Paris)
  • Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney)
  • South America (São Paulo)
  • Africa (Cape Town)

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Key Components

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Monitoring Edge

High-performance edge service that handles real-time data ingestion, processes monitoring checks from global monitoring locations, and validates endpoint health.

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Warden Agent

Lightweight server monitoring agent that tracks system resources (CPU, RAM, disk, network) and application metrics directly from your infrastructure.

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WordPress Agent

Native WordPress plugin that monitors your site from the inside, collecting PHP performance, database health, plugin conflicts, and server-side metrics.

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Notifications

Multi-channel alert system that delivers notifications via Email, Slack, Push Notifications, webhooks (coming soon), and SMS when issues are detected.

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Use Cases

Monitor your SaaS uptime, API endpoints, and critical user flows. Get alerted before customers notice issues.
Ensure your checkout process, payment gateways, and product pages are always accessible.
Monitor REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and webhooks with custom assertions and status code validation.
Install the agent plugin to monitor WordPress from both inside (server metrics) and outside (uptime).
Track SSL expiration across all your domains and get alerts before certificates expire.
Monitor domain expiration dates with automatic alerts at 30, 14, 7, and 3 days before expiry to prevent losing your domains.

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Next Steps

Quickstart Guide

Create your first monitor in 5 minutes

How Monitoring Works

Deep dive into monitoring mechanics

Configure Alerts

Set up your notification channels

API Access

Integrate with your existing tools