A global conflict dashboard you set up once
A dashboard is the part of a monitoring platform you configure to your own interests and then leave running. On WarWatch that is a watchlist of countries and saved articles, seven kinds of custom alert rule, an email digest of critical alerts, a scheduled daily report filtered to your countries, and a REST API that returns the same conflict scores, alerts and dossiers to your own tools.
What you configure
Watchlist
Alert rules
Alert digest
Daily report
Intel feed and archive
Developer API
A dashboard is only as honest as its alerts
The cheap way to build alerts is to fire on every match, and the result is a feed nobody reads. WarWatch separates rules that watch a state from rules that watch an event. A state rule — a country at or above a band, a corridor below its baseline, a price past a threshold — fires when the state is entered and then holds its peace for a cooldown, or until the state clears and returns. An event rule — a new alert of a type, an article with a phrase, an incident near an asset, a change in the sourced registers — reads only rows created since it last looked, so it can never repeat itself.
Free and premium
| Criterion | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Watchlist and saved articles | Yes, up to five saved articles | Unlimited |
| Alert rules | Yes, to a rule ceiling | Higher ceiling |
| Critical alerts | Not shown | Shown on the map and in the digest |
| Email digest | — | New critical alerts, deduplicated |
| Daily report | Brief depth | All depths |
| Map layers | Conflict mode, severity zones, dossiers, supply-chain structure | Adds tracking mode, strait monitors, output figures, contamination map |
| API | Separate API plan | Separate API plan |
Current prices and the full comparison are on the pricing page.
Who runs a conflict dashboard
- Analysts who want their countries and phrases watched overnight and a report in the morning.
- Editors and journalists with standing beats who need a nudge when a quiet country moves.
- Risk and security teams who want a rule per asset and corridor they depend on.
- Developers building their own views over the API.
What the dashboard is built on
Everything the dashboard shows is the same public-source data as the map: 45 news and OSINT sources classified into events and country scores, sourced registers for leadership and sanctions, AIS transit counts for corridors, geolocated alerts matched to assets. The daily report and the briefs are model-written from that material and labelled as analysis.
Limitations
- A rule fires on reports; reports lag events and may be revised.
- Keyword rules match text, not meaning, and will match the occasional unrelated article.
- Email delivery depends on your provider; the in-app bell carries the same alerts.
- The report is a summary of the platform’s own reporting, not an independent assessment.
Frequently asked questions
- What does a conflict dashboard include on WarWatch?
- A watchlist of countries and saved articles on the dashboard page; custom alert rules for country severity, alert type, keyword, commodity price move, chokepoint transit collapse, leadership or sanctions change, and incidents near an asset; an email digest of new critical alerts; a scheduled daily report by email; and the intel feed with priority ranking and a searchable archive.
- What is in the daily report?
- A model-written report built from the platform's own conflict reporting for the countries you choose, at a depth and language you set, delivered by email at your chosen time. Free accounts receive the brief depth; premium adds the longer depths.
- Can I get the data into my own tools?
- Yes. The public API returns articles, conflict alerts, conflict scores with trend and sparkline, country dossiers, chokepoints, route health, assets, companies, commodities and production data as JSON, authenticated with a key and metered by a monthly quota. It sees everything premium sees.
- Do I need to keep the site open for alerts?
- No. Alert rules are evaluated on the server and delivered to the in-app notification bell and, for premium members, by email. The map itself polls for new alerts every 30 seconds while it is open.
- Is the dashboard free?
- A free account gets the watchlist, saved articles, alert rules up to a ceiling and the brief daily report. Premium raises the ceiling, adds the email digest, the longer report depths and the premium map layers.
Related resources
See the map
The live conflict map, the country dossiers and the intel feed are free to open. Premium adds critical alerts, the strait monitors, the supply-chain figures and the daily report by email.
WarWatch (war-watch.com) is a global conflict intelligence platform built on publicly available information: news wires, regional press, public OSINT feeds and open datasets. Conflict information changes quickly and early reports are often incomplete or later revised. Nothing on this site is a substitute for official security guidance, and no event shown here should be treated as independently confirmed unless a source says so.