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Watchtower

Watchtower helps you keep your Minecraft server healthy. It checks logs, crashes, mods, backups, and how hard the machine is working — then shows the results in a web dashboard on your server. Everything stays on your machine. No cloud accounts, no AI, no data sent elsewhere.

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At a glance

• Works on: Linux servers running NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.x
• Dashboard: open http://<your-server-ip>:8787 in a browser (you must sign in)
• First login: username watchtower, password password — you will be asked to change the password
• Download: GitHub Releases · Modrinth

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What you get

Feature	In plain English
Health reports	A full check of your server — logs, crashes, mods, backups — saved as files you can read or share
Live dashboard	See server speed, lag, players, memory, and CPU with charts
Fix list	A prioritized list of problems from your latest report
Recovery tools	Help when the server will not start (separate command-line tool)
Built-in guides	Docs tab in the dashboard — search and browse help without leaving the game

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Start here

New to Watchtower? Read in this order:

1. Installation — download and add the mod
2. Quick Start Checklist — first login, report, backups, schedule
3. Dashboard Overview — where everything is in the dashboard
4. Dashboard Tabs — what each tab is for
5. Understanding-Data-Sources — what updates right away vs needs a full report
6. Using-Spark-with-Watchtower — find what is slowing the server (optional)

Server will not start? → Disaster Recovery

Something not working? → Troubleshooting

What is planned next? → Roadmap

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Download (1.0.0)

File	What to do with it
watchtower-neoforge-1.0.0+mc1.21.jar	Put in your server mods/ folder
watchtower-cli-1.0.0.jar	Put in mods/ too (recovery tool — not loaded as a mod)

See Downloads and Releases for GitHub, Modrinth, and build instructions.

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What's in 1.0.0

Live dashboard with 11 Monitor/Triage/Ops tabs plus Admin Docs. Setup wizard, scheduled reports, performance insights, Spark profiler tab, external backup tracking, always-on background scans, and disaster recovery CLI.

Details: Changelog

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For developers

Build and contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub.

Upcoming features (plain summary): Roadmap