Watchtower

Watchtower is monitoring software for Laravel and your VPS.

Watchtower will send you an alert:

• If your Laravel application has new logs
• If any of your Supervisor processes (queue workers) are not running
• If your server is running out of disk space (coming soon)
• If your server is offline (coming soon)

No AI or enterprise complexity, just an alert when things go wrong.

Learn more

Visit https://watchtower.dev/about to learn more about Watchtower or watch a YouTube video:

Explore the code

Here are good places to start if you'd like to explore the code:

• client/run.sh is the Bash client that collects data and sends it to Watchtower
• ReceiveBundleController receives and ingests data from the client

Self-hosting

Watchtower is a typical Laravel application. Host it as you would any other Laravel application (using Laravel Forge, for example).

Requirements:

• PHP 8.4
• MySQL (might also work with another database driver)
• Redis (optional, but recommended)
• Email credentials (using the smtp driver in your .env file)
• A cron job
• A queue worker (artisan queue:work --queue=default)

Once you have that set up, run:

• php artisan watchtower:prepare-client (also run this command after each deployment)
• php artisan watchtower:invite-user (this also tests your SMTP credentials)

License

Watchtower is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.