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Watchtower (settings)

Pre-resolve list titles to healthy releases. Feature overview: Watchtower.

Control Config key Default Effect
Enable Watchtower watchtower.enabled off Master switch
Search profile watchtower.profile-token first profile Which profile's indexers
Release selection watchtower.ranking watchdog Match watchdog / largest healthy
Series scope watchtower.series-scope latest-season latest / first / all-aired / recent / off
Recent episode count watchtower.series-recent-count 3 When scope=recent
Prefer season bundles watchtower.season-bundles on Finished seasons as one release
Fall back to episodes watchtower.season-bundle-fallback off When no healthy bundle
Fallback scope / recent / max episodes watchtower.season-bundle-fallback-* see defaults Bound episode fallback
Max items per series watchtower.series-max-episodes 50 0 = unlimited
When over the cap, keep watchtower.series-cap-keep newest newest / oldest
Junk floor (GB) watchtower.size-floor-bytes 0.5 GB Drop tiny releases
Bandwidth ceiling (GB) watchtower.size-ceiling-bytes none Empty/0 = none
Minimum grabs watchtower.min-grabs 0 Fake filter
Active warm-set cap watchtower.active-set-cap 100 Standing ready items
Auto throughput watchtower.auto-throughput off Match indexer limits; ignore daily budget
Daily resolve budget watchtower.daily-resolve-budget 60 Soft new-resolves/day
Shortlist depth watchtower.shortlist-depth 2 Winner + backups
Grab cap per resolve watchtower.grab-cap-per-resolve 3 Max NZB fetches/pass
Verify sample count watchtower.verify-sample-count 3 STAT segments
Verify timeout (seconds) watchtower.verify-timeout-seconds 10 Per-segment
Re-check interval watchtower.keepfresh-base-seconds 6h Usenet-only re-verify
Max re-check interval watchtower.keepfresh-max-seconds 7d Backoff cap
Dead-item retry watchtower.unavailable-retry-seconds 6h Re-search cadence
List sync interval watchtower.sync-interval-seconds 1h Remote list refresh
Verbose activity logging watchtower.verbose-logging off Chatty Logs output

watchtower.resolve-concurrency (default 3) exists in the backend but is not exposed in this Settings tab.