What Is Website Monitoring?

NorthDuty runs two layers of monitoring: user journeys that prove customers can still check out, sign up and log in, and uptime and website health underneath. A workspace overview then prioritizes health, journey failures, incidents, and deploys across every site.

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The plain-English version: what gets checked, how often, and why it matters.

Monitoring coverage by plan

Two layers, one project. Each cadence is configurable in project settings.

Uptime & website health

Every 5 minutes by default: HTTP status, SSL, DNS, response timing, blank-page detection, broken resources, JavaScript errors, and API call tracking — all in one check.

User journeys

NorthDuty lists what customers do on your site, shows which ones nothing checks yet, and suggests journeys to cover them. Turn any on in one click, or describe your own multi-step flow in plain text — no code.

Workspace overview

Review monitoring readiness, degraded sites, failing journeys, open incidents, and deploy activity across every project without opening sites one by one.

Website monitoring results you can actually inspect

NorthDuty keeps uptime and user journey evidence in the same product surface, so every alert has context.

Journey Coverage

See what customers can do on your site, and what nothing checks yet

Journey coverage lists the key things customers do on the site, such as checkout, cart, search, bookings, and forms, with a plain status for each: monitored, failing, partly checked, ready to turn on, or not monitored. Every row has the one button that fixes it.

NorthDuty Journey coverage checklist for a WooCommerce demo store: bookings failing, checkout not monitored, an order-status journey ready to turn on, cart partly checked, and forms and search monitored.
One row per customer action, with the thing to fix first at the top.
Alert Rules

Turn website health signals into alert thresholds

Configure alerts for health score, response time, failed journeys, SSL expiry, and other website reliability signals.

NorthDuty alert rules screen showing health score, response time, user journey failure, and SSL expiry thresholds.
Alert thresholds for health score, response time, journey failures, and SSL expiry.
Form Journeys

See exactly which form step failed, with screenshots

NorthDuty runs your contact and lead forms as a real user journey — open the page, fill the fields, submit — and keeps a step-by-step screenshot timeline so a failed submission is easy to pinpoint.

NorthDuty form monitoring run detail showing a contact-form journey — open contact page, enter name, enter message, send message — with the confirmation step failed and a 75 percent success rate.
Contact-form journey run with step-by-step screenshots, latest duration, and success rate; the confirmation step failed.
AI Journeys

AI-suggested journeys, offered right where they close a gap

NorthDuty scans the site and prepares journeys with concrete steps. Each suggestion appears in the row it would cover, so you can read its steps and turn it on in one click, with no scripts.

NorthDuty Journey coverage with an AI-suggested order-status journey ready to turn on and its three steps expanded, next to a failing booking journey, an unmonitored checkout, and a partly checked cart.
A suggested journey in the row it covers, with its steps shown before you turn it on.
Journey Results

See the exact step timeline and the latest success rate

Each monitored journey keeps a step timeline, last run details, and success-rate context so teams can understand whether a flow is healthy.

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

Journeys and health in one project

Add a base URL and NorthDuty sets up a project around it. Website health monitoring starts running every 5 minutes by default, checking HTTP response, SSL, DNS, blank pages, broken resources, JavaScript errors, and first-party API calls in a single pass. You can adjust the cadence in project settings.

On top of that, NorthDuty AI suggests user journeys — checkout, signup, login, contact forms — that you can enable in one click or replace with flows described in plain text. Each run happens in a real browser and keeps step screenshots.

Across the workspace, Overview brings every site's monitoring state, health, journeys, incidents, and recent deploy activity into one prioritized queue. First-check progress and completion live there, so setup guidance does not keep occupying the Status page after monitoring is ready.

Why this combination matters

Uptime alone misses silent regressions: a page can return 200 while checkout is broken. Journeys prove the flow works; health checks catch outages, SSL and DNS problems. Running both closes the gap.

How NorthDuty website monitoring works

Set up takes a few minutes; everything runs on a schedule from there.

1

Create a project with your base URL

Add your site's base URL and NorthDuty sets up a project around it, ready to discover important pages and routes.

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Health checks run every 5 minutes by default

Website health monitoring uses the default 5-minute cadence out of the box. Change the frequency to 1, 5, or 15 minutes in project settings without touching code.

3

Coverage-aware user journeys

NorthDuty lists what customers do on the site, shows what nothing checks yet, and suggests journeys for the most valuable gaps.

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Alerts and incident handoff

When a journey or health check fails, your team gets the evidence and can carry a detected finding directly into incident management.

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Pricing

Pricing

NorthDuty plans are sized by how many checkout, signup and login journeys you monitor: Free, $29 Starter, $79 Pro, $199 Business. 7-day trial, no card.

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Deployment Monitoring

Automatically run health checks and user journeys the moment your site is deployed or your CMS publishes a change.

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User Journey Monitoring

NorthDuty runs your checkout, signup, login and form flows in a real browser on a schedule and reports the exact step that failed, with a screenshot.

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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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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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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

Checkout form monitoring that submits a real test entry on a schedule and alerts you when it fails. Free plan includes 1 daily form check; paid from $29/mo.

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Alerting

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about this monitoring feature and when teams should use it.

What is website monitoring?

Website monitoring checks whether important pages and user journeys are available and usable for visitors. NorthDuty covers availability, page quality, and customer flows from a single project.

Is uptime monitoring enough?

No. A page can return 200 OK while a button is missing, a form is broken, an API returns the wrong shape, or a checkout flow fails halfway through. NorthDuty pairs uptime with user journey checks to catch what status codes hide.

How often does each monitoring type run?

Website health runs every 5 minutes by default and is configurable in project settings, and user journeys can run daily, hourly, or every 15, 10 or 5 minutes depending on the plan.

Do I have to write code to set up user journeys?

No. NorthDuty analyzes the site's customer capabilities, suggests journeys for uncovered paths, and lets you enable them in one click. You can also describe a custom journey in plain text — no code, no Playwright scripts.

Start monitoring your website with NorthDuty today.

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