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.
What Is Website Monitoring?
NorthDuty runs three kinds of monitoring on every project: uptime, UI changes, and user journeys. Together they cover what customers actually experience.
The plain-English version: what gets checked, how often, and why it matters.
Three monitoring types 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 captures screenshots and compares them pixel-by-pixel against previous baselines, and NorthDuty AI suggests 2-5 user journeys you can enable in one click or replace with flows described in plain text.
What's included in every project
Three monitoring types, one project. Each cadence is configurable in project settings.
UI changes monitoring
Scheduled screenshots and managed URL screenshot sets are compared pixel-by-pixel against previous baselines so unexpected design or layout changes surface as a diff image.
User journeys
NorthDuty AI suggests 2-5 journeys based on your site. Enable any in one click, or describe your own multi-step flow in plain text — no code.
One project, one base URL
Add your base URL and all three monitoring types run together. No separate accounts, dashboards, or integrations to wire up.
Website monitoring results you can actually inspect
NorthDuty keeps uptime, UI change, and user journey evidence in the same product surface, so every alert has context.
Alert Rules
Turn website health signals into alert thresholds
Configure alerts for health score, response time, failed journeys, visual differences, SSL expiry, and other website reliability signals.
UI Changes
Review visual diffs instead of guessing what changed
NorthDuty compares the latest screenshot against the previous baseline and reports the changed percentage with side-by-side evidence.
AI Journeys
Start with AI-suggested journeys, then enable the ones that matter
NorthDuty suggests site-specific happy-path flows with concrete steps, so teams can start monitoring important user actions without writing scripts.
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.
Why this combination matters
Uptime alone misses silent regressions. UI diffs miss broken backends. Journeys miss visual breakage. Running all three closes the gap.
- Catch outages and broken pages within minutes
- Spot unexpected visual changes after deploys, CMS edits, and experiments
- Verify that login, checkout, signup, and other multi-step flows still work end to end
- Reduce the time between regression and team response
- Give technical and non-technical teams a shared view of website risk
How NorthDuty website monitoring works
Set up takes a few minutes; everything runs on a schedule from there.
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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.
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AI-suggested user journeys
NorthDuty AI suggests 2-5 user journeys you can enable in one click, or describe your own flows in plain text.
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Screenshots and pixel-level visual diffs
Capture screenshot sets for managed URLs and compare later captures pixel-by-pixel against baselines, so unexpected design or layout changes are easier to review.
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Pricing
Pricing
NorthDuty pricing for website monitoring: Free, $29 Starter, $79 Pro, $199 Business, and $499 Enterprise plans.
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Features
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Solutions
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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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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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Answers to common questions about this monitoring feature and when teams should use it.
What is website monitoring?
Website monitoring checks whether important pages, visuals, and user journeys are available, usable, and unchanged for visitors. NorthDuty covers all three from a single project.
Is uptime monitoring enough?
No. A page can return 200 OK while a button is missing, a form is broken, or a checkout flow fails halfway through. NorthDuty pairs uptime with screenshot diffs and 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. UI change detection supports daily or weekly schedules, and user journeys can run every 15 minutes, hourly, or daily.
Do I have to write code to set up user journeys?
No. NorthDuty AI suggests 2-5 journeys for your site. Enable them in one click, or describe a custom journey in plain text — no code, no Playwright scripts.
Call To Action
Start monitoring your website with NorthDuty today.
Use NorthDuty to monitor uptime, UI changes, and user journeys from one project — health checks start with your base URL, and the deeper layers are ready to configure.
Start on the free plan — add your base URL and monitoring starts in minutes.