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Watchdog

Beta

Snapshot, smoke test, and restore fragile VS Code extension setups

The Problem

VS Code updates can silently break critical extensions, but users and extension teams have no local health layer to detect drift quickly or roll back to a known-good extension set.

About

Captures your installed extension state, runs health checks against the extensions you care about, and restores pinned versions after a bad VS Code or integration update.

Free vs Pro

FREEVSCode Marketplace
  • Snapshots of installed user extensions
  • Activation-based health checks for monitored extensions
  • Diff against the last known-good state
  • Restore pinned extension versions through the VS Code CLI
Install Free →
PROEverything in Free +
  • Team-wide incident clustering
  • Canary checks against Insider and preview builds
  • Shared known-good policies for teams
  • Hosted alerts when bad VS Code versions start failing health checks
Pro License
$29/ lifetime
or $14/year
  • Lifetime updates included
  • Activate on up to 3 devices
  • License key — no account needed
  • 30-day refund guarantee
Secure checkout via Polar.sh