🛡️ Introducing WatchDogEA – Reliable Application Monitoring for Windows

WatchDogEA is a lightweight yet powerful tool designed to keep your critical Windows applications running—automatically and without interruption.

Whether you’re managing a production system, running a vision inspection process, or deploying standalone applications, unexpected crashes or unresponsive behavior can lead to lost productivity and downtime. WatchDogEA eliminates that risk by continuously monitoring your chosen application and ensuring it stays alive.

🔍 How it works

• Monitors application health using configurable heartbeat signals (via database or file timestamps).

• Automatically kills and restarts the application if it stops responding, crashes, or fails to update within your defined timeframe.

• Optionally observes an internal table (Alive) in a SQLite database to verify that both DateTime and SystemOK values are fresh and valid.

• Runs discreetly in the background with a system tray icon and log viewer interface.

• Supports manual restart, startup delays, and custom process matching (ideal for runtime environments like Cognex Designer).

⚙️ Key features

• 🧠 Smart restart logic with customizable thresholds

• 📊 Built-in logging of all actions and events

• 🖥️ GUI-based settings for easy configuration

• 🧩 Works with .exe files and runtime-wrapped processes

• 🔐 Requires admin privileges to manage system processes securely

✅ Who is it for?

WatchDogEA is ideal for:

• Industrial automation engineers

• System integrators using vision tools

• Technicians managing unattended Windows processes

• Anyone who needs set-it-and-forget-it reliability for Windows applications

📥 Download

You can download the latest installer from the Downloads section. Installation requires administrator rights.

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