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Sitemoth monitoring

Sitemoth recrawls a site on a schedule, compares the new crawl with the last one and sends an alert when something important changed. The crawl runs on your computer, like every Sitemoth crawl.

What Sitemoth alerts on

• Sitemoth alerts when internal pages start returning 4xx or 5xx.
• Sitemoth alerts when a noindex appears in a meta robots tag or an X-Robots-Tag header.
• Sitemoth alerts when a canonical changes, a page disappears from the crawl or a new redirect appears.
• Sitemoth alerts when robots.txt changes or the sitemap loses more than a set share of its URLs.
• Sitemoth alerts when the health score drops.
• Sitemoth alerts on any status, title, canonical or robots change on the key pages you mark as watched.

Where alerts go

• Sitemoth posts to a Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord channel through an incoming webhook.
• Sitemoth posts JSON to any webhook URL.
• Sitemoth sends email through your own SMTP server.

When monitors run

Sitemoth runs monitors hourly, daily or weekly while the app is open. Turn on background mode and Sitemoth registers the monitor with your system scheduler (launchd on macOS, a systemd user timer on Linux, Task Scheduler on Windows), so it also runs when the app is closed. The computer has to be on. Sitemoth keeps the last crawls of each monitor so you can open and compare them.

Setup steps are in the monitoring guide.

Cloud monitoring is coming

Cloud monitoring will check your key pages from Sitemoth's servers, so alerts keep coming when your computer is off. It will be a paid add-on to the free desktop app. Your full crawls will keep running on your computer.

Tell me when cloud monitoring is ready

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