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Deploy Hooks

Deploy Hooks — Catch Breakage the Moment You Ship

Every deploy is a risk. Broken bundles, missing assets, and misconfigured redirects slip through CI and reach production. Deploy hooks trigger an immediate Sitewatch website check the moment your deploy completes — so you catch breakage in seconds, not hours.

  • Instant website checks triggered by your CI/CD pipeline
  • Configurable CDN propagation delay — check after caches clear
  • Root cause playbooks delivered with every post-deploy incident
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01The difference

Deploying without hooks vs. with deploy hooks

Detection speed

Without deploy hooks:
Hours — next scheduled check
With Sitewatch deploy hooks:
Seconds — triggered by deploy

CDN propagation

Without deploy hooks:
Not accounted for
With Sitewatch deploy hooks:
Configurable delay before check

Root cause

Without deploy hooks:
Manual investigation
With Sitewatch deploy hooks:
Automatic classification + fix steps

Coverage

Without deploy hooks:
Depends on check schedule
With Sitewatch deploy hooks:
Every deploy, every time

Setup effort

Without deploy hooks:
N/A
With Sitewatch deploy hooks:
Paste one webhook URL

02Why deploy hooks

Stop waiting for users to report post-deploy breakage

Vercel integration

Add a webhook URL to your Vercel project settings. Every deploy triggers an instant website check — no code changes needed.

Netlify integration

Configure a deploy notification webhook in Netlify. Sitewatch checks your site the moment the deploy finishes.

GitHub Actions

Add a single curl step to your workflow. Works with any GitHub Actions deployment pipeline.

Any CI/CD platform

Generic webhook endpoint works with Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or any tool that can fire a POST request.

CDN propagation delay

Configure a delay between deploy and check to let CDN caches propagate. Avoids false positives from stale edge nodes.

Sub-60-second detection

From deploy completion to incident alert in under 60 seconds. Catch breakage before the first user hits your site.

Signed webhook verification

Each deploy hook includes a signing secret. Sitewatch verifies the HMAC signature on every request to ensure only your CI/CD pipeline can trigger checks.

03Where a deploy breaks

Every stage a release can go wrong.

A deploy touches more than your code. Select a stage to see how it fails — and how Sitewatch catches it.

Build output

bundles

How it fails — The build renames or drops a file, so the page asks for something that no longer exists.

How Sitewatch detects it — Checks every file the page references immediately after the release lands.

CDN cache

propagation

How it fails — The CDN keeps serving the previous version, so some visitors get old code and some get new.

How Sitewatch detects it — Waits for propagation, then re-checks, so a stale cache is not mistaken for a broken deploy.

Critical pages

journeys

How it fails — The homepage survives the release and checkout does not, which nobody notices until sales stop.

How Sitewatch detects it — Verifies each important page separately on every deploy, not just the front door.

Redirects

routing

How it fails — A routing change sends visitors in circles or lands them somewhere unexpected.

How Sitewatch detects it — Follows the full path after each release and reports loops or wrong destinations.

Page output

integrity

How it fails — The release quietly changes what the page renders without technically breaking anything.

How Sitewatch detects it — Compares the page against the last good deploy and flags what changed.

04How it works

From deploy to diagnosis in four steps

  1. 01

    Add webhook URL

    Copy your deploy hook URL from Sitewatch and paste it into your CI/CD platform's webhook settings.

  2. 02

    Deploy your code

    Push to production as usual. When the deploy completes, your CI/CD platform fires the webhook automatically.

  3. 03

    Website check runs

    Sitewatch waits for the configured propagation delay, then runs a full website check on every monitored page.

  4. 04

    Root cause delivered

    If something broke, you get root cause classification, confidence scoring, and stack-aware fix steps — across any of your configured alert channels.

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05What you get

Outcomes, not a feature list.

Find out in seconds, not on Monday morning.

A deploy hook fires a full check the moment your release lands. Sitewatch verifies the page and everything on it, then tells you if the release broke something — usually before the first real visitor arrives.

▸ deploy main@7c1e · check triggered
✓ homepage · 14 files ok
✓ pricing · 11 files ok
✕ /checkout · stale bundle referenced
elapsed · 41s since deploy
✕ deploy flagged · rollback suggested

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CI/CD platforms supported

<60s

Deploy-to-detection time

200/day

Triggers on Pro plan

06FAQ

Frequently asked questions