Developer guides
Creating custom apps for Joomla!
Last Updated: October 13, 2026Watchful allows Joomla! developers to extend its monitoring capabilities through custom app adapters. These adapters collect application-specific information from your extensions and generate alerts that Watchful processes during site validation. A Joomla! custom app uses an enabled plugin in the watchfulliApps group. The Watchful component discovers these plugins and invokes...
Creating custom apps
Last Updated: October 13, 2026Watchful supports custom apps that extend its monitoring capabilities beyond standard CMS features. By integrating Watchful with your own plugins and extensions, you can monitor application-specific conditions, detect changes, and generate alerts that are processed through Watchful. For example, you might create a custom app to monitor a third-party integration,...
Creating custom apps for WordPress
Last Updated: October 13, 2026Watchful allows developers to extend its monitoring capabilities through custom apps integrated into existing WordPress plugins. Using the Watchful\App\Alert interface and the watchful_app_alerts filter, your plugin can generate informational or error alerts that Watchful collects during site validation. This guide demonstrates how to build a custom app that monitors a...