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Use Case

Website Monitoring

Recurring fact checks instead of gut feel. ScoutAPI returns browser evidence for alerting and incident workflows.

API Call

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Smoke check like monitoring jobs: change selector and visible, then run.

Not run yet

Assert: p visible=true on example.com

Run the smoke check to see the live assert result.

Monitoring building blocks

/v1/assert for defined rules
/v1/screenshot for visual evidence
/v1/jobs + webhooks for async runs

Example alert logic

→ Hourly check against critical pages
→ Alert Slack/Pager when passed=false
→ Store the screenshot and response on the incident

Jobs docs Monitoring Feature