Introduction to Watch Center

Watch Center can be used to streamline all-hazards event monitoring and quickly understand risks to an organization's locations of interest.

It consolidates disparate real-time event feeds and creates alerts around places of interest so potential threats and hazards to your organization can be monitored and assessed efficiently. This accelerated approach provides decision-makers more time to effectively plan response activities and protect life and property. Watch Center is typically implemented emergency management agencies, businesses, utilities, fusion centers, colleges and universities, and other national, state, or location government organizations that want to implement a real-time, data-driven approach to all-hazards event monitoring.

The Watch Center delivers a set of capabilities that help you monitor real-time all-hazard events in and around places of interest and share essential information with stakeholders.

Tip:

Watch Center includes a series of pre-configured hazard feeds from the Esri Living Atlas. It also supports a series of event feeds from Esri partners, including DataCapable, Dataminr First Alert, Dataminr Pulse, Factal, Gridmetrics, Samdesk, Seerist AI Events , and Seerist Verified Events. Partner feeds are recommended, but optional, and must be purchased separately from ArcGIS Marketplace.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Watch Center requires the following apps:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Velocity (Standard)

Information products

Watch Center includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Watch Center	An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by watch officers to monitor alerts in your watch areas, create watch reports for stakeholders, and manage locations used as watch areas.	Contributor
Watch Reports	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by stakeholders and decision-makers to view watch reports.	Viewer

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.1 (Mar 2025)	The Watch Alerts Monitor dashboard has been updated to enable filtering by map extent and other attributes. The Watch Center ArcGIS Experience Builder app has been updated to include a feature report widget for printing hard-copy watch reports. The Watch Center real-time analytic has been updated to prevent the occurrence of duplicate alerts when a critical alert occurs within a watch area. As a result, each of the following items has received a new version due to a dependency on the spatiotemporal feature layer created by this real-time analytic: Create Watch Alerts big data analytic Watch Alert Statistics dashboard Watch Alerts web map Watch Alerts Monitor web map Before deploying a new version of Watch Center, review the Update Watch Center help topic.
1.0 (Jun 2024)	First release of Watch Center