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Deploy verification

"Deploy Succeeded" Is Not the Same as "Site Works"

Every deploy is a risk. A green CI build only tells you the code compiled — not that your site actually works in production. Sitewatch verifies after every deployment with a structured pass/fail/degraded verdict and a before/after comparison showing exactly what changed. No Playwright scripts, no flaky E2E suites — just paste a webhook URL and get a verified report within seconds of every ship.

  • Structured pass/fail/degraded verdict after every deploy
  • Before/after asset diff showing exactly what changed
  • Zero-config webhook — paste a URL and you're done
Add deploy verificationSee deploy hooks

01The difference

Deploying blind vs. with deploy verification

How you learn something broke

Without deploy verification:
User reports or next scheduled check
With Sitewatch:
Structured verdict within seconds of deploy

Debug context

Without deploy verification:
Dig through logs and deploys manually
With Sitewatch:
Before/after diff with deploy tagged to incident

Time to detect

Without deploy verification:
Minutes to hours
With Sitewatch:
Under 60 seconds post-deploy

Effort required

Without deploy verification:
Write and maintain E2E test scripts
With Sitewatch:
Paste one webhook URL — zero config

02Why deploy verification

Know your deploy actually worked — not just that it shipped

Pass/fail/degraded verdict

Every deploy gets a structured verdict — pass, fail, or degraded — so your team knows immediately whether the release is healthy without reading through logs.

Before/after diff

See exactly what changed between the previous and current deploy: new assets, removed scripts, changed bundles, modified headers — all in a single comparison view.

Zero-config webhook

Paste one webhook URL into your CI/CD platform. No test scripts to write, no browser automation to maintain, no flaky E2E suites to babysit.

Works with any CI/CD platform

Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines — anything that can fire a POST request triggers a verification report.

Incidents tagged with deploy context

When a deploy causes breakage, the resulting incident is automatically tagged with the deploy that triggered it — giving your team instant root cause context.

CDN propagation delay handling

Configure a delay between deploy completion and verification check so CDN caches have time to propagate. No false positives from stale edge nodes.

03How it works

From deploy to verified verdict in four steps

  1. 01

    Deploy fires webhook

    Your CI/CD platform sends a POST request to your Sitewatch deploy hook URL the moment the deploy completes.

  2. 02

    Verification checks run

    Sitewatch waits for the configured propagation delay, then runs a full check suite across all monitored pages — assets, scripts, headers, performance, and more.

  3. 03

    Before/after compared

    The current check results are compared against the pre-deploy baseline. New, changed, and removed assets are identified and classified.

  4. 04

    Verdict delivered

    A structured pass/fail/degraded verdict is generated and pushed to your alert channels — Slack, email, webhook, or dashboard — with the full diff attached.

04What you get

Outcomes, not a feature list.

A verdict on the release, not a wall of logs.

Every deploy gets one report: pass, degraded or fail, with a before-and-after of what changed. You can hand it to a client or paste it into the release thread without translating anything first.

▸ deploy report · main@7c1e
before · 4 styles · 6 scripts · 28 images
after · 4 styles · 5 scripts · 28 images
✕ changed · 1 script no longer loads
✕ verdict: FAIL · 1 regression vs last good deploy

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Deploy hooks on Pro plan

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CI/CD platforms supported

Before/after

Asset diff on every deploy

05FAQ

Frequently asked questions