Watchman Tower currently runs active monitoring across 3 regions. Free workspaces can use 1 active region per monitor, while paid workspaces can select more than one region.

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What Is Multi-Region Monitoring?

Multi-region monitoring checks websites and services from more than one geographic location. This helps teams:
  • Detect regional issues - Know if your site is down in specific countries
  • Measure global performance - See response times from different locations
  • Reduce false alerts - Confirm issues from multiple locations before alerting

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Why It Matters

Regional checking gives you a broader view than a single probe location:
  • Different user paths can surface different failures
  • Performance varies by geography even when uptime looks normal
  • Regional network issues can look like isolated incidents unless you compare results
  • Distributed confirmation can help reduce noisy alerting decisions

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Current Availability

Today, Watchman Tower supports active monitoring across 3 regions. Region selection is part of the monitoring check configuration, and the platform keeps track of the expected active regions for each monitor.
  • Free workspaces can keep 1 active region on a monitor
  • Paid workspaces can select multiple active regions
  • Region-aware evidence helps Watchman Tower compare outcomes and latency by region

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How It Works

Choose Locations

Select the active monitoring regions for the check based on your workspace and plan

Distributed Checks

Each selected location independently checks the target asset

Smart Results

Watchman Tower compares expected and observed regional results to improve health visibility across regions

Intelligent Alerts

Region-aware evidence helps teams decide whether an issue looks local, partial, or broader before escalating it

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Benefits

Avoid False Alarms

Use more than one region to add confidence around incident decisions

Global Performance Insights

Compare response behavior across regions and traffic paths

Regional Issue Detection

Know if problems are local or worldwide

CDN Verification

Verify your CDN works correctly in all regions

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Example Use Cases

Monitor from US, Europe, and Asia to ensure all your international customers have good performance.
Check from locations where most of your customers are located to catch regional issues quickly.
Verify your CDN serves content correctly from all edge locations.
Ensure your API is accessible and fast for users around the world.

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Operational Context

Multi-region checks do more than add extra pings. They help Watchman Tower preserve regional latency context, compare outcomes across active regions, and support lower-noise incident decisions when failures are partial or inconsistent.

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Next Steps

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