Watchman Tower
Watchman Tower is a modern monitoring platform that provides full uptime, response time, SSL expiry, domain expiry, and update tracking for your WordPress sites. This plugin connects your WordPress installation directly to Watchman Tower and transforms your site into a fully monitored resource — without affecting performance.
Once connected, your site will automatically send lightweight heartbeat signals that include performance metrics, version information, update statuses, and health diagnostics. All monitoring results and alerts are visible inside your Watchman Tower dashboard:
https://app.watchmantower.com More details: https://www.watchmantower.com
Watchman Tower is ideal for individual site owners, developers, and agencies. The platform supports up to 10 monitored sites for free, making it one of the most accessible monitoring solutions for WordPress users.
This plugin is lightweight, secure, cron-friendly, CDN-compatible, and optimized for high-performance environments.
⭐ Key Features
Core Monitoring
- 24/7 uptime monitoring
- Response time tracking
- Latency breakdown (DNS, TLS, TTFB)
- SSL certificate expiry alerts
- Domain expiry alerts
- Multi-region monitoring (global probe checks)
WordPress-Specific Monitoring
- WordPress core update alerts
- Plugin update alerts
- Theme update alerts
- PHP version tracking
- Active plugin list reporting
- Cron health checks
- Security-sensitive change detection
Integration Features
- Automatic site registration with Watchman Tower
- Secure token-based communication
- Lightweight heartbeat system (no performance impact)
- Cache-compatible and CDN-safe request structure
- Manual “Send Heartbeat Now” action
- One-click unlink functionality
Agency & Multi-Site Support
- Manage multiple WordPress sites from a single Watchman Tower account
- Monitor up to 10 sites for free
- Share status pages with clients
- Configure notifications via Email, Slack, Push Notifications and SMS
You need a Watchman Tower account to use this plugin. You can create one directly inside the plugin settings screen or by visiting:
https://app.watchmantower.com
External Services
This plugin connects to the Watchman Tower monitoring platform in order to create accounts, send heartbeat signals, and retrieve site status.
The following API endpoints are used:
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https://api.watchmantower.com/api/auth/wp/create-account – Used to create a Watchman Tower account directly from WordPress. Data sent: site URL, admin email, optional full name, optional password.
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https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat – Sends periodic uptime and performance heartbeat signals. Data sent: WordPress version, PHP version, plugin list, server performance metrics, response time, site URL, integration token.
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https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/heartbeat/unlink – Used when disconnecting the WordPress site from Watchman Tower. Data sent: integration token and site identifier.
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https://metric.watchmantower.com/wp/status – Retrieves the current connection status for the site. Data sent: integration token.
All requests are authenticated with a secure token stored inside your WordPress database.
Privacy
To learn more about how data is handled, please refer to:
- Privacy Policy: https://www.watchmantower.com/privacy-policy
- Terms of Service: https://www.watchmantower.com/terms-of-service