Glossary
Content monitoring vs. uptime monitoring
Content monitoring watches for changes on a page you don't control, like a competitor's pricing page. Uptime monitoring watches whether a page you do control, like your own storefront, is up and responding. Both matter to a Shopify store owner: uptime monitoring protects your own revenue by catching outages, while content monitoring keeps you aware of what competitors are doing on pages you have no control over.
Learn more: The uptime monitoring guide and Shopify competitor monitoring
Related terms
CSS-selector monitoringCSS-selector monitoring means tracking one specific element on a competitor's page, a price, a stock badge, a promo banner, by its CSS selector, rather than comparing the entire page as an image.Domain / SSL expiry alertA domain or SSL expiry alert is a warning fired when a monitored domain's SSL certificate or registration is approaching expiry, at 30, 14, and 7-day thresholds.Weekly Competitor ReportThe Weekly Competitor Report is Beaconmon's scheduled Slack or email summary that groups every competitor change detected over a period into a plain-language digest, rather than a raw list of diffs.
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