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Website Monitoring That Catches Problems Before Customers Do

Monitoring you can actually trust. Three layers working quietly in the background of every project: website health checks every 5 minutes by default, scheduled screenshot and visual-diff reviews, and AI-suggested user journeys you can review and edit in plain text — always in your control, never a black box. Add your base URL. We'll take it from there.

Traditional uptime monitoring isn't enough

A website can be technically online while the customer experience is still broken. That is where revenue leaks and support issues begin.

How NorthDuty solves the problem

Three monitoring types — uptime, UI changes, user journeys — running together on every project.

Product proof from real monitoring screens

NorthDuty shows the evidence behind every check: alert thresholds, AI-suggested journeys, visual diffs, and step-level journey results.

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.

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

NorthDuty AI suggested flows screen showing ecommerce journey recommendations with steps and enable monitoring buttons.
AI-suggested ecommerce flows with step lists and one-click enable controls.
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.

NorthDuty UI changes monitoring screen showing previous screenshot and diff overlay with 0.00% changed.
Daily screenshot comparison with previous capture, diff overlay, and changed percentage.
Journey Results

Confirm journey health with run history

A journey result shows the exact monitored steps, latest run timing, success rate, and current status for a customer-facing flow.

NorthDuty user journey monitoring detail screen showing a healthy product detail page journey with step timeline and 100% success rate.
Journey detail with step timeline, last run status, latest duration, and success rate.

What each monitoring type covers

One project, three monitoring types — together they cover availability, visible UI, and the multi-step journeys customers actually rely on.

Uptime checks

Confirm your project base URL is reachable and responsive on the default 5-minute cadence, with 1 and 15 minute options in settings.

  • HTTP status
  • Response timing
  • Redirect chain

Website health signals

Catch the trust, performance, and rendering issues that don't show up as classic outages.

  • SSL & DNS health
  • Blank-page detection
  • Core Web Vitals

Front-end & API signals

Capture the front-end and dependency failures that break customer actions while the page still 'works'.

  • JavaScript errors
  • Failed resource requests
  • First-party API call tracking

UI change detection

See exactly what changed visually on scheduled screenshots and managed URL screenshot sets.

  • Daily or weekly cadence
  • Pixel-level diffs
  • Diff images for review

User journeys

Run real multi-step flows automatically — set up in one click or in plain text.

  • AI-suggested journeys
  • Plain-text custom flows
  • Step-by-step failure reporting

How it works

Designed to be easy for technical and non-technical teams.

1

Create a project with your base URL

Add your site's base URL and NorthDuty sets up a project around it — uptime monitoring starts immediately.

2

All three monitoring types run on a schedule

Website health runs every 5 minutes by default, screenshots and visual diffs can run daily or weekly, and user journeys use the cadence you choose. Defaults work out of the box; tune anything in project settings.

3

See results and alerts in real time

Each run is timestamped and reported in the dashboard, with diff images, journey transcripts, and full uptime context to help you respond fast.

Use cases

NorthDuty adapts to the business problems different teams need to protect, from checkout reliability to multi-site oversight.

Pricing

NorthDuty is currently free until Jul 1, 2026. Compare the preview plans from the app billing screen, then review the full pricing page when you need more detail about monitoring depth and scale options.

Why we built NorthDuty

Most monitoring tools tell you when a server is down. They stay silent when the checkout button disappears, the login form throws a JavaScript error, or a deploy quietly wipes the hero CTA.

We kept watching teams discover broken buttons, blank product pages, and failed signups through angry customer emails instead of their monitoring dashboard. NorthDuty is the tool we wanted: a single check on whether the customer experience still works — not just whether the server replies.

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Website Monitoring

Learn how NorthDuty combines default 5-minute website health checks, screenshot-based UI diffs, and editable user journey monitoring in one project.

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Feature

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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Feature

UI Changes Monitoring

Get screenshot-based pixel diffs for key website pages so unexpected design, content, and layout changes are easier to review.

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Feature

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.

Explore User Journey Monitoring

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Pricing

Explore NorthDuty pricing for website monitoring covering uptime checks, UI change detection, and user journey monitoring.

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Solutions

Explore NorthDuty solutions for ecommerce website monitoring, SaaS website monitoring, agency website monitoring, and startup website monitoring.

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Article

How to Monitor Website Uptime

Learn how to monitor website uptime, choose the right checks, and catch downtime before it hurts traffic, leads, or sales.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about NorthDuty and website monitoring.

What is website monitoring?

Website monitoring is the practice of checking whether important pages, visuals, and user journeys are available, usable, and unchanged for visitors. NorthDuty covers all three from a single project.

Why is uptime monitoring not enough?

Because a website can be online while key customer actions are still broken. Missing buttons, failed logins, checkout problems, and JavaScript errors all happen without a full outage.

How does NorthDuty detect issues?

Website health checks every 5 minutes by default return HTTP, SSL, DNS, blank-page detection, broken resources, JavaScript errors, and first-party API call results. UI change monitoring uses screenshots and pixel diffs. User journeys run AI-suggested or plain-text multi-step flows on a schedule.

How often does NorthDuty check websites?

Website health runs every 5 minutes by default and can be set to 1, 5, or 15 minutes. Screenshots and visual diffs support daily or weekly schedules. User journey cadence is configurable per project.

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 when you add your base URL, with visual reviews and journeys ready to configure.