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siebird/craft-watchtower
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Monitors the Craft queue manager for bottlenecks and send notifications emails

5.0.2(1y ago)11.8k[1 issues](https://github.com/siebird/craft-watchtower/issues)proprietaryPHP

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Queue watcher plugin for Craft CMS 3
====================================

[](#queue-watcher-plugin-for-craft-cms-3)

Watchtower plugin monitors the Craft queue manager for bottlenecks and send notifications emails once those thresholds are met.

For added monitoring, you can also ping [*Oh Dear*](https://ohdear.app/) for scheduled task monitoring.

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

- PHP version 7.1 or higher
- Craft CMS 3.3 or higher

---

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install this plugin, copy the command above to your terminal:

```
composer require siebird/craft-watchtower
```

In the control panel, go to settings, find Watchtower plugin and click to configure settings.

Configure cron job to trigger Watchtower
----------------------------------------

[](#configure-cron-job-to-trigger-watchtower)

In order for Watchtower to monitor the queue manager–it needs to be run via a cron job. Configure a cron job to run a console command to hourly or at your desired interval. Example below runs every hour on the hour.

*Cron Job (linux)*

```
0 * * * * php craft watchtower/monitor
```

Custom Email Template
---------------------

[](#custom-email-template)

Review the default email template (`./src/templates/_emails/notification`) as a starting point. Enter the updated path in the custom email template field relative to Craft's `./templates` folder.

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance22

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~103 days

Recently: every ~16 days

Total

14

Last Release

473d ago

Major Versions

1.0.2.1 → 4.0.02022-09-08

1.0.2.2 → 5.0.02024-06-13

1.0.2.3 → 4.0.22024-11-27

4.0.2 → 5.0.12024-11-27

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd606aadcff963a8203dd2c40bead00ccd2abc9b51677c62cbb60f0e75c9a2d0?d=identicon)[siebird](/maintainers/siebird)

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Top Contributors

[![amici-infotech](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20450552?v=4)](https://github.com/amici-infotech "amici-infotech (13 commits)")[![siebird](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10938?v=4)](https://github.com/siebird "siebird (4 commits)")

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Tags

monitoringqueuecmsCraftcraftcmscraft-plugincron joboh dearohdearqueue managersiebirdcraft-queue

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