NorthDuty Monitoring Features

Four monitoring types in every project: uptime, API monitoring, UI changes, and user journeys. Defaults work out of the box; cadences are configurable per project.

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Uptime, UI changes, and user journeys — one project, three layers of monitoring.

The four monitoring types

Health monitoring starts as soon as you add a base URL. API monitor, screenshot, visual diff, and journey cadences are configurable per project.

Uptime & Health

Uptime & website health

Every 5 minutes by default: HTTP status, SSL, DNS, redirects, response timing, blank-page detection, broken resources, JavaScript errors, API calls, security header scoring, WCAG accessibility auditing, SEO fundamentals, and domain expiry — all in one check.

NorthDuty website health summary showing health score, response time, SSL, DNS, and other check results for a monitored site.
One health check covering status, SSL, DNS, performance, security, accessibility, SEO, and domain expiry.
API Monitoring

API monitoring

NorthDuty watches the API calls your pages make and suggests monitors for the critical endpoints. Each check confirms a 2xx response and that the fields your pages expect are present — not just that the endpoint answered. Enable a suggestion in one click or add an endpoint yourself.

NorthDuty API monitoring screen showing suggested API monitors for critical endpoints with success status and expected response fields.
AI-suggested API monitors verifying success status and the response fields your pages expect.
UI Changes

UI changes monitoring

Scheduled screenshots and visual diffs compare current captures with previous baselines. Managed URL screenshot sets let teams review more than the base URL when needed.

NorthDuty UI changes monitoring screen showing screenshot history, previous screenshot, diff overlay, and changed percentage.
Screenshot history with previous capture, diff overlay, and changed percentage.
User Journeys

User journeys

NorthDuty AI suggests 2-5 user journeys for your site. Enable any in one click, or describe your own multi-step flow in plain text — no code.

NorthDuty user journey run detail showing the step timeline, last runs, success rate, and step screenshots for a monitored flow.
Journey detail with step timeline, run history, step screenshots, latest duration, and success rate.

Four monitoring types — one project, one base URL

Most teams do not just need to know whether a page answered. They need to know whether a customer can sign in, fill out a form, add to cart, complete checkout, or reach a key landing page without friction.

NorthDuty covers that with four monitoring types running on every project: website health checks every 5 minutes by default, AI-suggested API monitors that verify your critical endpoints, screenshot-based UI change detection, and user journeys that NorthDuty AI suggests for you or that you describe in plain text.

Why these features matter

Each type closes a gap the others can't see.

How to use the feature set

Set up takes a few minutes — most teams cover their highest-risk pages first.

1

Create a project with your base URL

Uptime monitoring is on by default; API monitors, UI changes, and user journeys are ready to enable.

2

Turn on the suggested API monitors

Review the endpoints NorthDuty found in your pages' traffic and enable the critical ones in one click, or add an endpoint by hand.

3

Pick the AI-suggested user journeys you want

Review the 2-5 journeys NorthDuty proposes. Enable the relevant ones, or describe your own in plain text.

4

Confirm the UI change baselines

NorthDuty captures screenshot baselines and pixel-diffs later captures against them, with managed URL sets available for broader page reviews.

5

Tune cadence per project

Website health runs every 5 minutes by default; API-monitor, visual-change, and journey cadences can be adjusted in project settings.

Feature Pages

Visit each feature page for use cases, benefits, FAQs, and related solution pages.

Feature

Website Monitoring

Learn how NorthDuty combines health checks, screenshot diffs, and editable user journeys in one website monitoring project.

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Uptime Monitoring

Monitor uptime every 5 minutes by default with HTTP, SSL, DNS, blank-page detection, broken resources, JavaScript errors, and API call tracking.

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API Monitoring

NorthDuty finds the critical APIs your site depends on and suggests monitors for them. Add an endpoint, confirm the fields it should return, and get alerted when it breaks.

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SSL Certificate Monitoring

Monitor SSL certificates with NorthDuty website health checks so validity, trust, and expiry issues are visible before visitors are blocked.

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DNS Monitoring

Monitor DNS resolution with NorthDuty as part of website health checks, so domain and resolution issues are visible before important pages become unreachable.

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Website Performance Monitoring

Monitor website performance signals, response timing, and rendering context on the pages and journeys that affect revenue, leads, and trust.

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Visual Regression Monitoring

Screenshot-based visual regression testing and website change detection for key pages — get pixel diffs on design, content, and layout changes, no code required.

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User Journey Monitoring

NorthDuty AI suggests 2-5 website journeys. Enable them in one click or describe a custom multi-step flow in plain text.

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Signup Flow Monitoring

Monitor signup flows with NorthDuty user journeys so broken forms, missing CTAs, JavaScript errors, API failures, and onboarding issues are caught early.

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Login Monitoring

Monitor login flows with NorthDuty user journeys so authentication pages, forms, JavaScript, APIs, and account-access steps keep working.

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Form Monitoring

Monitor website forms with user journeys and page health checks so broken lead, contact, checkout, and submit flows are caught early.

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Alerting

Send NorthDuty alerts to email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat, webhooks, Telegram, WhatsApp, and SMS.

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Status Pages

Publish a public status page, track incidents automatically from alert rules, and schedule maintenance windows — all from NorthDuty project settings.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about NorthDuty and website monitoring.

What monitoring types does NorthDuty include?

Four: uptime and website health (one check every 5 minutes by default), API monitoring (AI-suggested endpoint checks that verify a success status and the response fields your pages expect), UI changes monitoring (screenshots and pixel diffs), and user journeys (AI-suggested in one click or written in plain text). Every project also gets a public status page, incident management, and maintenance windows.

Which monitoring types are best for ecommerce?

All four matter: uptime catches checkout outages, API monitoring catches a payment or inventory endpoint returning the wrong shape, UI changes catch broken product or cart screens after deploys, and user journeys verify the cart → payment → confirmation flow end to end.

Which monitoring types are best for SaaS teams?

Uptime keeps the marketing site and dashboard reachable, API monitoring verifies your auth and data endpoints return what the app expects, UI changes catch regressions to pricing or signup screens, and user journeys exercise login, onboarding, and core app flows.

Call To Action

Start monitoring your website with NorthDuty today.

Get website health monitoring started as soon as you add your base URL, then enable API monitors, UI changes, and user journeys in the same project.

Free forever plan, no credit card required — add your base URL and monitoring starts in minutes.