Uptime and performance auditing, monitoring and alerting for WordPress.
As of April 2026, Watchtower is a WordPress audit plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Audit Trail.
Watchtower is a plugin that monitors your WordPress website and alerts you of any issues that show up unexpectedly. Think of it as your WordPress guardian angel.
While we’re still quite fresh, we’re constantly growing and expanding the features of the plugin. We currently support uptime monitoring, performance auditing/tracking and alerts/notifications.
Watchtower is free but there is a Pro plan which allows you to super charge the features of the plugin to include things such as SMS sending and faster alert/audit times.
Watchtower notifies you when your WordPress website is down. Once connected, we’ll constantly ping your WordPress website and notify when it is unavailable or returning an error.
Performance can the difference bet…
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.