🛡️ Privacy & Security

Automation Watchdog was built with a privacy-first architecture, ensuring that clients maintain complete control of their environments while still benefiting from robust monitoring and visibility.

Put simply, we never have access to your environment, code, or any systems within your organization’s network. Communication is strictly one-way and outbound, your automations make an API call to send a lightweight “heartbeat” signal, fully controlled by you. Automation Watchdog acknowledges the request with a unique ID for traceability, nothing more.

🔍 What Automation Watchdog Sees

Automation Watchdog only tracks when automations check in, never what they do, how they do it or what data they are working with. We simply don't have access to your environments.

Any data captured within Automation Watchdog has been specifically provided by the client. We don't touch nor have access to your systems.

Data Type	Description	Stored?	Notes
Check-in timestamp	The time your workflow reports its status	✅	Used to confirm activity and uptime
Watch identifier	A unique ID and watch name provided by the client	✅	For display and reporting only
Watch description	Short description provided by the client (what is this watch monitoring)	✅	For display and reporting only
Workflow metadata	Optional status message, queue or machine name	✅	Controlled by the client
Execution details, logs, business data	Internal process information	❌	Never transmitted

🔐 How It Connects

All communication is outbound-only and encrypted via HTTPS (TLS 1.2+).
No inbound ports or firewall exceptions are required.

If your bot can access:

https://api.automationwatchdog.com

… it can securely report its status to the Watchdog platform.

🌐 Network Requirements

Automation Watchdog requires no inbound connectivity to the client environment. All communication is initiated by the client’s automation platform, bot machines or users.

Initiator	Protocol	Destination	Port	Purpose
Workflow / Bot / User	HTTPS	api.automationwatchdog.com	443	Secure API requests
User	HTTPS	app.automationwatchdog.com	443	Web dashboard access for authorized users
User	HTTPS	docs.automationwatchdog.com	443	User documentation