Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic monitoring for marketing websites
Most synthetic monitoring tools are built for DevOps teams running complex applications. Sitewatch is synthetic monitoring designed for marketing sites -- proactively checking pages, assets, and scripts to catch silent breakage before your visitors arrive.
- Proactive checks that simulate real visitor experience
- Every script, stylesheet, and image verified on every check
- Set up in 2 minutes, no DevOps knowledge required
Synthetic check failed
Proactive check results
Detected issues
Recent activity
- hero-carousel.js -- 404 Not Foundjust now
- pricing-table.css -- MIME type mismatchjust now
- main.bundle.js -- 200 OK1m ago
- Page fingerprint -- Stable1m ago
Synthetic monitoring, simplified
Proactive monitoring without the DevOps complexity
Proactive, not reactive
Sitewatch doesn't wait for users to report problems. It proactively fetches your pages, parses the HTML, and validates every asset -- catching breakage before any visitor encounters it.
No scripting required
Traditional synthetic monitoring requires writing test scripts and maintaining them. Sitewatch just needs your URLs. It automatically discovers and checks every asset on the page.
2-minute setup
Paste your URLs, connect Slack or email, done. No agents to install, no scripts to write, no DevOps team needed. Purpose-built for marketing and agency teams.
Asset-level verification
Every JavaScript bundle, CSS stylesheet, image, and font is verified with a HEAD request. Status codes and MIME types are checked -- catching the "up but broken" failures that pings miss.
Page fingerprinting
SHA-256 fingerprinting detects structural changes to your pages. Catch deploy regressions, CMS mistakes, and CDN drift without writing a single test.
Evidence-rich alerts
When Sitewatch finds a problem, you get the exact asset URL, HTTP status, MIME type, and which page is affected. No guessing, no reproducing -- start fixing immediately.
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Failure types detected
2-of-3
Retry confirmation
< 2 min
Setup time
How it works
How synthetic monitoring works with Sitewatch
Add your URLs
Paste the URLs you want to monitor. Landing pages, product pages, checkout flows -- any page that matters to your business.
Automated synthetic checks
Sitewatch proactively fetches each page, parses the HTML, and discovers every linked script, stylesheet, image, and font.
Full asset validation
Every discovered asset gets a HEAD request to verify its HTTP status code and MIME type. The page HTML is fingerprinted with SHA-256 to detect structural changes.
Alert on confirmed issues
Issues are confirmed with 2-of-3 retries. Confirmed incidents trigger alerts across your configured channels with full evidence -- the exact asset, status code, and failure type.
Synthetic monitoring without the complexity
No scripts to write. No agents to install. Just paste your URLs.
Sitewatch vs. traditional synthetic monitoring
Synthetic monitoring built for marketing teams
| Feature | Traditional synthetic tools | Sitewatch |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Write and maintain test scripts | Paste URLs -- auto-discovers assets |
| Target audience | DevOps and SRE teams | Marketing, agency, and product teams |
| Asset verification | Only if scripted | Every asset checked automatically |
| Page fingerprinting | Requires custom assertions | SHA-256 fingerprint built in |
| Maintenance | Scripts break when pages change | No scripts to maintain |
| Time to value | Days to configure | Under 2 minutes |
Setup
Target audience
Asset verification
Page fingerprinting
Maintenance
Time to value
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Synthetic monitoring proactively simulates user interactions with your site before real users encounter problems. Instead of waiting for users to report issues, synthetic checks run on a schedule to verify your pages work correctly. Sitewatch is synthetic monitoring focused on marketing websites -- checking page assets, scripts, and structure without requiring you to write test scripts.
Tools like Datadog and New Relic are designed for DevOps teams monitoring complex applications. They require writing and maintaining test scripts, and they're priced for engineering organizations. Sitewatch is purpose-built for marketing sites: paste your URLs, and it automatically discovers and checks every asset. No scripting, no agents, no DevOps team required.
No. Sitewatch automatically discovers every script, stylesheet, image, and font on your pages. It validates them all with HEAD requests checking HTTP status and MIME type. You just provide the URLs you want to monitor.
Check intervals are configurable per site — from every 30 minutes on Free up to every 5 minutes on Pro. You can also trigger on-demand checks anytime from the dashboard or via deploy hooks.
Sitewatch includes uptime detection as one of its 11 detection rules (UNAVAILABLE). But it goes much further -- checking every asset on your pages, validating MIME types, fingerprinting page structure, and detecting redirect loops. Many teams use Sitewatch alongside their existing uptime tool for comprehensive coverage.
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