Watchdog

Watchdog Plugin

Self-healing container watchdog with a circuit breaker and Telegram/email escalation. Free — MIT licensed.

Install

nself plugin install watchdog

No license key required.

Description

Self-healing container watchdog with circuit breaker: status, resets, event history, and TG/email escalation alerts.

This is a CLI plugin: it installs the nself-watchdog binary into your plugin path and runs as a command, not a background service.

Category: infrastructure. Current version: 1.0.0.

Configuration

Env Var	Default	Description
WATCHDOG_PERMANENT_OPEN_THRESHOLD	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_TG_BOT_TOKEN	—	Optional.
WATCHDOG_TG_CHAT_ID	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_SMTP_HOST	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_SMTP_PORT	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_SMTP_FROM	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_SMTP_TO	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_SMTP_USER	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
WATCHDOG_SMTP_PASS	(see plugin.json)	Optional.
NSELF_ENV	(see plugin.json)	Optional.

Commands

nself-watchdog subcommands (installed alongside the plugin):

• nself-watchdog status
• nself-watchdog history
• nself-watchdog reset <service>
• nself-watchdog reset-breakers
• nself-watchdog test-alert

Examples

Status

nself-watchdog status

History

nself-watchdog history

Source

plugins/watchdog/

Manifest: plugins/watchdog/plugin.json

See Also

• Dogfood — production health checks
• Maintenance — disk cleanup and log rotation

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