# Watchdog

> Watchdog monitors your domains for uptime, latency and SSL, and scans them for HTTPS, header, DNS and email security issues.

Source: https://docs.vigilbase.com/one/services/watchdog

Watchdog is Vigilbase's monitoring for your public domains. It checks each domain in two ways:

- **Uptime**: availability, latency and SSL certificates, probed from several regions.
- **Security**: scans of HTTPS, security headers, DNS and email settings, exposed files and subdomains, graded A to F.

Watchdog lives on the **Monitoring** page at https://one.vigilbase.com/dashboard/watchdog. Click **Monitoring** under **Workspace** in the sidebar to open it.

Older links to https://one.vigilbase.com/dashboard/monitoring and https://one.vigilbase.com/dashboard/security still work; the second opens the **Scans** tab.

## Monitoring targets

A target is a domain Watchdog watches, with uptime checks, security scans or both. Your Vigilbase team adds and edits targets for you and chooses the probe regions. If a domain you care about is missing, ask through [Support](https://docs.vigilbase.com/one/requests/support).

Until a target exists, the page shows **No targets configured**.

## Summary

Above the tabs, four figures summarise all targets:

| Figure | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **Status** | How many uptime targets are up, labelled **All Up**, **Partial** or **Outage**. |
| **Uptime (24h)** | Average uptime over the last 24 hours. |
| **Security Score** | Average security grade and score out of 100. |
| **At Risk** | Targets whose latest grade is D or F. |

## Overview tab

**Overview** shows uptime charts and a map of the probe regions. Filter them by **Time Range** (**Last 24 hours**, **Last 7 days** or **Last 30 days**), by target and by region.

**Monitoring Targets** lists each target with **24h Uptime**, **Latency**, **SSL**, the overall **Security** grade, the **HTTPS**, **Headers** and **DNS** scores, and **Last Scan**.

## Outages tab

**Outages** lists times a target went down or degraded, with **Status**, **Severity**, **Monitor**, **Category**, **Region**, **Started**, **Duration** and **Events**.

## Scans tab

**Scans** shows the **Security Posture** of your targets from their latest security scans:

- The grade and score of the latest scan, and when it ran.
- **Latest scan findings**, counted by **Critical**, **High**, **Medium** and **Low**.
- **AI Summary**: click **Generate AI Summary** for a plain-language summary of the scan.
- The list of findings, each with what was found, what was expected and how to fix it. Filter by category (**HTTPS**, **Headers**, **DNS/Email**, **Exposure**, **Subdomains**) or severity, search with **Search issues...**, and download the list with **Export CSV**.

Scans run on a schedule for every target with security checks turned on. If no scan has run yet, the tab says **No security scans yet**.

## Watchdog traffic on your sites

Watchdog sends a small amount of traffic to the domains it watches. You may see it in your logs or WAF events under these user agents:

| Source | User agent contains |
|---|---|
| Uptime probes | `Vigilbase-Monitoring/1.0` |
| Security scans | `Vigilbase-Watchdog/1.0` |

https://vigilbase.com/monitoring lists both user agents and the current probe addresses. Security scans run on Cloudflare Workers and have no fixed addresses.

The exposure check asks for well-known sensitive paths, such as `/.env` or `/.git/config`, to confirm your site does not serve them. It reads only the start of each response and does not follow redirects. These requests can show up as blocked in your WAF; that is expected.

> [!TIP]
> If your WAF or a firewall blocks the uptime probes, Watchdog reports the target as down from those regions. Allow the probe addresses listed at https://vigilbase.com/monitoring, or ask your Vigilbase team to change the target's regions.

If you use [Vigilbase Shield](https://docs.vigilbase.com/one/services/cloudflare), traffic from both Watchdog user agents is excluded from your billable bandwidth.

## Related

- Run one-off checks of any site with the free [Tools](https://docs.vigilbase.com/tools).