Hosting Panels

Hosting Panels

If you use a hosting panel (Crafty, Pterodactyl, bloom, AMP, and others), Watchtower can detect it and show helpful context. It still will not find your backups automatically — you set those separately.

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At a glance

• Default: automatic detection (PANEL=auto)
• Wrong panel shown? Set PANEL=none or the correct panel name in config
• Backups: always set up manually — Backups

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Panels Watchtower recognizes

When set to auto, Watchtower looks for common setups including:

Crafty, Pterodactyl / Pelican, PufferPanel, MCSManager, AMP, Multicraft, MineOS, Docker, and bare-metal installs.

Some panels must be set manually (TCAdmin, WISP, PebbleHost).

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bloom.host / VPS / containers

Concern	What to do
Dashboard on public IP	Bind to localhost + SSH tunnel — Security and Access
Temperature missing on charts	Normal on VPS — not always available
Cannot see backup folder	Use Settings → Backups for panel-only backups
Recovery tool cannot write	Run CLI with output to /tmp

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Backup hints

Watchtower may suggest where backups might live, but you confirm the path:

• Backups tab → Choose backup folder if files are on this server
• Settings → Backups if backups stay on the panel or cloud only

Issue messages: BACKUP_NOT_CONFIGURED, BACKUP_NOT_FOUND, BACKUP_STALE — see Backups.

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Technical details

Force or disable panel detection

PANEL=auto          # default
PANEL=none          # disable integration
PANEL=crafty        # force a panel
CRAFTY_ROOT=/path/to/crafty

Common root keys: CRAFTY_ROOT, PTERODACTYL_ROOT, AMP_ROOT, MINEOS_ROOT.

Crafty API (when RCON unavailable)

CRAFTY_URL=https://your-panel:8443
CRAFTY_API_TOKEN=your-token
CRAFTY_SERVER_UUID=server-uuid

See watchtower.conf.example.

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See also

• Configuration
• Backups
• Security and Access