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Alternatives to Watchful
Watchful: Dashboard for agencies to update, back up, scan and monitor many WordPress and Joomla client sites from one place. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 18 have a free plan, 1 sells for a one-off price, 1 carries proof such as verified revenue, update history or uptime.
- Who Changed It
WordPress plugin that logs who changed what on your site, shows field diffs, and marks unusual or risky events.
Free · Uptime and monitoring
- StatusScout
Watches your site's uptime, SSL expiry, security headers, DNS records and exposed files, and alerts you when one fails.
Free · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Phare
Watches websites and APIs, alerts you on several channels, tracks incidents and hosts status pages, all from an independent EU company.
Since 2025
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Agencies
- BlogVault
Backs up WordPress sites off server as changes happen, with one click restores, staging copies and host migrations.
Subscription · Website builders
- Uptimepage
Checks websites and APIs from several regions, alerts whoever is on call and runs a public status page.
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Agencies
- KIT.domains
Tracks domain renewals, SSL certificates and DNS records for many sites and alerts you before something lapses or breaks.
Since 2024
Subscription · Uptime and monitoring · Agencies
- Visual Sentinel
Watches websites and servers for downtime, SSL, DNS and visual breakage, with client reports for agencies.
Since 2026Updated 22 days ago
Subscription · Uptime and monitoring
- Atomic Edge
A firewall at the network edge that stops login attacks, bots and plugin exploits on WordPress sites before they hit your server.
Free plan · Security and passwords · Online sellers
- Fatal Error Notify
Get an alert by email, Slack or SMS when your WordPress site throws an error, with the plugin, page and backtrace that caused it.
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Agencies
- Passster
WordPress plugin that locks pages, sections or whole sites behind passwords, magic links or paid access.
Subscription · Communities and memberships
- Protect Uploads Pro
Guards WordPress media with passwords, role limits and links that expire, and lets site owners share private files with clients.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Agencies
- UWH Site Migrator
A free WordPress plugin to back up a whole site, copy it to Google Drive, move it to another host and roll back restores.
Free · Website builders
- Checkmate
Open-source monitoring you host yourself for websites, servers, containers and SSL, with status pages and alerts.
Free · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Pingify
Watches your sites, certificates, DNS records and scheduled tasks around the clock and tells your team as soon as something fails.
Since 2024Updated 4 months ago
Subscription · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Certimon
Tracks SSL certificates on any number of domains and warns you before they expire via Telegram, Teams, PagerDuty or webhooks.
Since 2025
Free · Uptime and monitoring
- DevHelm
Checks your APIs and sites every 30 seconds, tracks vendor outages and hosts a status page for SaaS teams.
Since 2026
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- EasyMonitor
Self-hosted uptime checks from probes in several regions that agree before alerting, plus status pages for small teams.
Free · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Logdash
Checks your site is up, sends alerts to Telegram or a webhook, and adds logs, metrics and a public status page.
Since 2025
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- OpenUptime
Open source uptime checks, alerts and public status pages that you or an AI agent can manage, with no charge per monitor.
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Peekaping
Uptime checks for sites, APIs, databases and queues you run on your own server, with alerts and public status pages.
Free · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- ActiveLayer
Service that checks form, signup and comment submissions for spam without CAPTCHAs, via a WordPress plugin or REST API.
Subscription · Forms and surveys
- ALTCHA
CAPTCHA that blocks bot sign-ups and form spam without cookies or tracking, available as a WordPress plugin, self-hosted or managed.
Free plan · Security and passwords
- Antideo
APIs and a WordPress plugin that check IP location and reputation, emails and phone numbers to filter out fake form signups.
Free plan · Security and passwords · Developers
- Auto-Install Free SSL
Gets and renews free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates on cPanel shared hosting without command line work.
Free plan · Security and passwords