> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.evocrawl.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Observability & Monitoring

> Monitor websites, track uptime, and detect changes in real-time

DevOps and SRE teams use Evocrawl to monitor websites, track availability, and detect critical changes across their digital infrastructure.

## Start with a Template

<Card title="Evocrawl Observer" icon="github" href="https://github.com/superaihuman/evocrawl-observer">
  Real-time website monitoring and intelligent change detection
</Card>

<Note>
  **Get started with the Evocrawl Observer template.** Monitor websites and track changes in real-time.
</Note>

## How It Works

Use Evocrawl's extraction capabilities to build observability systems for your websites. Extract page content, analyze changes over time, validate deployments, and create monitoring workflows that ensure your sites function correctly.

## What You Can Monitor

* **Availability**: Uptime, response times, error rates
* **Content**: Text changes, image updates, layout shifts
* **Performance**: Page load times, resource sizes, Core Web Vitals
* **Security**: SSL certificates, security headers, misconfigurations
* **SEO Health**: Meta tags, structured data, sitemap validity

## Monitoring Types

### Synthetic Monitoring

* User journey validation
* Transaction monitoring
* Multi-step workflows
* Cross-browser testing

### Content Monitoring

* Text change detection
* Visual regression testing
* Dynamic content validation
* Internationalization checks

## FAQs

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  <Accordion title="How does Evocrawl help with website monitoring?">
    Evocrawl extracts website content and structure on demand. Build monitoring systems that call Evocrawl's API to check pages, compare extracted data against baselines, and trigger your own alerts when changes occur.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I monitor JavaScript-heavy applications?">
    Yes! Evocrawl fully renders JavaScript, making it perfect for monitoring modern SPAs, React apps, and dynamic content. We capture the page as users see it, not just the raw HTML.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How quickly can I detect website issues?">
    Evocrawl extracts data in real-time when called. Build your monitoring system to check sites at whatever frequency you need - from minute-by-minute for critical pages to daily for routine checks.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I validate specific page elements?">
    Yes. Use the extract API to pull specific elements like prices, inventory levels, or critical content. Build validation logic in your monitoring system to verify that important information is present and correct.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How can I integrate Evocrawl with alerting systems?">
    Evocrawl provides webhooks that you can use to build integrations with your alerting tools. Send extracted data to PagerDuty, Slack, email, or any monitoring platform by building connectors that process Evocrawl's responses.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Related Use Cases

* [Competitive Intelligence](/use-cases/competitive-intelligence) - Monitor competitor changes
* [Product & E-commerce](/use-cases/product-ecommerce) - Track inventory and pricing
* [Data Migration](/use-cases/data-migration) - Validate migrations