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Welcome to the Watchtower project dossier. This is where I document the complete journey of building Watchtower - from initial concept through implementation challenges to final release.

Follow along as I share technical decisions, architectural patterns, and practical insights gained while developing this monitoring system managing monit agents.

This project is currently in idea phase. Explore the articles below to see the evolution and lessons learned.

Watchtower

A centralized monitoring system that manages and coordinates monit instances across multiple hosts. Watchtower provides a unified interface for configuring, deploying, and monitoring monit-based checks and alerts.

The system aggregates status information from all managed monit agents, providing a comprehensive view of system health across the entire infrastructure. Watchtower includes sophisticated alert routing with flexible escalation policies and integration with popular notification channels.

It provides built-in dashboards for visualization while supporting external tools like Grafana. The architecture is designed for operational simplicity with centralized configuration management and automated agent deployment.

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