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Create Your Account

  1. Visit app.watchmantower.com
  2. Sign up with email or OAuth (GitHub, Google)
  3. Verify your email address
Sign up page

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Add Your First Monitor

1

Navigate to Monitors

From your dashboard, click “New Monitor” in the top right
Dashboard new monitor button
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Configure Basic Settings

Fill in your monitor details:
  • Name: Friendly identifier (e.g., “My Website”)
  • URL: Full URL including protocol (https://example.com)
  • Method: HTTP method (GET, POST, HEAD)
  • Interval: Check frequency based on how quickly you want health updates
Monitor configuration form

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View Your Dashboard

Your dashboard shows:
  • Health Timeline: Recent status history with visual changes over time
  • Response Time Graph: Ongoing response time tracking for monitored assets
  • Response Time Analysis: Trend views that help spot degradation patterns
  • Status Summary: Current state and key performance indicators
  • Check Count: Total number of monitoring checks performed
  • Domain and SSL Visibility: Expiration-related health context where available
Main dashboard view

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Next Steps

Monitoring Overview

Learn how monitoring works behind the scenes

Alert Configuration

Advanced alert rules and escalation policies

WordPress Integration

Add internal WordPress signals when you need deeper visibility

API Reference

Integrate monitoring into your workflow

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Common First Steps

Create separate monitors for staging, production, and development environments with appropriate check intervals.
Create different alert channels for different teams (ops, dev, support) based on severity.
Schedule maintenance windows to suppress alerts during planned downtime.
Create a status page to communicate service health with customers or stakeholders.