A journey is a real browser walking through a real flow — add to cart, checkout, sign up, log in, send the form — on a schedule. When a step breaks, you get the step, the screenshot, and the error, not a green dashboard.
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One journey checked daily is free forever. Paid plans add more journeys, checked every 15 or 5 minutes.
No Playwright, no recorder extension, no code. Two ways in, both in plain English.
Add a site and NorthDuty proposes 2-5 site-specific journeys — for a store: browse to product, add to cart, checkout; for a SaaS: signup, login, pricing to trial. Each comes with its steps written out. Enable the ones that matter in one click.
"Go to /pricing, click the Annual toggle, click Start Free Trial, fill the form with the test account, expect the welcome page." NorthDuty turns that into a scheduled run. If the site changes and a step stops matching, it repairs the step and tells you what it changed.
Use a test account and test payment details. Secrets never go in URLs, step text, reports, or alerts. Journeys are meant for sites you own or are authorized to test.
Daily on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, every 5 minutes on Pro and above. Deploy detection re-runs every journey the moment a site publishes, so a bad update is caught minutes after it goes live.
Real screens. The point is that a failure arrives with evidence you can forward to a client or a developer without a second look.
Each suggestion lists its intent, how severe a failure would be, and the exact steps it will run.
Step timeline, latest duration, success rate over time, and a screenshot per step — so you can tell whether it was the UI, a script, or a backend service.
Open the page, fill the fields, submit, expect the confirmation. When the confirmation never comes, the form journey fails at that step — before a week of leads goes missing.
Email on Free; Slack, SMS, and the rest from Starter. Health score, response time, and SSL thresholds are there too if you want them.
Tuesday: a WooCommerce plugin update ships. The homepage loads, the uptime monitor stays green, and the payment step on checkout starts returning an error. Nothing about the server changed, so nothing pings. The client notices on Thursday, from a customer.
A checkout journey catches this on Tuesday. NorthDuty opens the store in Chromium, adds a product, goes to checkout, fills the form, reaches the payment step — and fails there, with a screenshot of the error. The alert names the step. That is the whole difference between monitoring a server and monitoring a flow.
The same mechanism covers every flow that costs money when it silently breaks.
About five minutes, and no code at any point.
One URL. NorthDuty starts health checks immediately and analyzes the site for journey candidates.
Review the 2-5 suggestions — checkout, signup, login, form — and switch on the ones tied to revenue. Or describe a custom flow in plain text.
Daily on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, every 5 minutes on Pro and up. Deploy detection adds a run after every publish.
When a step breaks you get the step name, the screenshot, the error, and the run history — by email, Slack, or SMS.
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Pricing
NorthDuty plans are sized by how many checkout, signup, and login journeys you monitor: Free (1 daily journey), $29 Starter, $79 Pro, $199 Business, $499 Enterprise. 7-day full trial, no card.
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An uptime check asks the server whether a URL responds. A journey opens the site in a real browser and does what a customer does — clicks, fills, submits — and checks that each step worked. A site can be 100% up with a broken checkout; only the journey notices.
No. NorthDuty runs Playwright and Chromium behind the scenes, but you never touch them. Journeys are suggested from your URL, and custom ones are described in plain text.
NorthDuty attempts to repair the step against the new page and reports what it changed, so a redesign does not turn into a wall of false alarms. If it cannot repair it, the journey fails with a screenshot so you can adjust the description.
Use a test account and test payment details, as you would for any QA. Keep secrets and real payment data out of the journey text. Journeys are intended for sites you own, operate, or are authorized to test.
Free runs one journey once a day, forever. Starter ($29) runs 3 every 15 minutes, Pro ($79) runs 20 every 5 minutes across 10 sites, and Business and Enterprise scale to 50 and 100. The 7-day trial unlocks everything with no card.
Yes, with no plugin to install — NorthDuty drives the site from the outside in a real browser. That is also why it catches the WordPress failure that hurts most: an update that leaves the site up while checkout, login, or a form quietly stops working.
Add your URL, enable the checkout or signup journey NorthDuty suggests, and find out on Tuesday instead of Thursday. One journey checked daily is free forever.
7 days with every feature unlocked, no credit card required — then keep monitoring on the free forever plan.