Set up your dashboard
How to edit site details in Watchful
Last Updated: September 28, 2026Once you’ve added a website to Watchful, you may want to customize some of its site-specific settings. For example, you can schedule backups, configure uptime monitoring, or add notes to keep important information in mind whenever you perform maintenance on the site. These settings, along with other site-specific options, can...
Add site tags in Watchful
Last Updated: September 28, 2026Tags are a simple way to organize the sites in your Watchful account. You can use them to group sites by client, location, service plan, website type, maintenance requirements, or any other system that works for your team. A site can have one tag, several tags, or no tags at...
How to validate account emails
Last Updated: September 29, 2026Watchful requires email addresses to be validated before they can be used for certain outgoing email features. Email validation applies to both: This helps ensure that Watchful is sending messages only to and from addresses that you control. If one or more email addresses have not been validated, Watchful displays...
Customizing the Watchful interface
Last Updated: September 25, 2026Watchful lets you customize the information displayed in several areas of the interface so you can focus on the details that are most useful to you. The Dashboard, Remote Installer, Updater, and Tags Manager each include table settings that control which columns are displayed. Some table settings also let you...