Create a monitor

Create a monitor when you want Ampere to check for an important change and collect evidence for your team to review. You can focus on a particular webpage or ask Ampere to search the wider web.

Monitoring depends on the source and provider being available. It cannot promise immediate, exhaustive, or guaranteed detection, so describe the signal that matters and review the evidence attached to each alert.

Before you start

You need:

• A project for the monitor and any Joule follow-up work.
• A clear description of the change that should create an alert.
• An active subscription and enough credits for the selected check cadence.

An organization can have up to 20 active monitors. If the limit is reached, New monitor is unavailable until an active monitor is paused or archived.

Create a monitor from Monitoring

1. Open Monitoring from the app navigation.
2. Select New monitor.
3. Enter a short, recognizable Name.
4. Choose the Project where Joule should work and save follow-up results.
5. In What to watch for, describe what counts as an important change and what should be ignored.
6. Add a Page to watch when the monitor should focus on one webpage or website. Leave it blank to search the wider web.
7. Choose Hourly, Daily, or Weekly under How often to check.
8. Optionally complete When it changes, ask Joule to if you want a Joule follow-up after an alert.
9. Review any follow-up attachments and the model, effort, and machine settings.
10. Choose the workspace members who should receive monitor-alert emails.
11. Optionally add a Description, then select Create monitor.

The current user is selected as an email recipient by default when their account is eligible. You can change the recipient list before saving. Recipient selection does not guarantee delivery; account preferences, rate limits, and delivery safeguards still apply.

Write a useful monitoring condition

Describe one observable change and include boundaries that reduce noise. For example:

Tell me when this competitor changes pricing or launches a new plan. Ignore spelling and layout changes that do not affect the offer.

A page URL narrows the source. Without a URL, the wider-web check can find relevant public evidence, but coverage can be partial or provider-dependent.

Understand cadence and displayed cost

More frequent checks can surface changes sooner and use more credits. When monitoring billing is active, use the cost control beside How often to check to see the current credits per check and a 30-day estimate for the selected cadence.

The estimate describes monitoring checks only. If the monitor starts Joule follow-up work after a change, that work uses credits separately.

Add an optional Joule follow-up

Leave When it changes, ask Joule to blank when you only need an alert and its evidence. If you add a follow-up instruction, tell Joule exactly what reviewable output to prepare.

Attachments, model, effort, and machine settings apply to that follow-up. The project is required even when you do not add a follow-up, because it defines the monitor's working context and ownership.

Create a monitor through Joule

You can also ask Joule to help set up a monitor in an interactive chat. Joule presents a reviewable proposal rather than silently creating the monitor. Check the project, condition, source, cadence, follow-up instruction, settings, and recipients on the confirmation card before accepting it.

Do not treat a proposal as a saved monitor. The monitor exists only after the confirmation finishes successfully and Ampere returns the created result.

What happens after creation

After a successful save, Ampere opens the monitor detail page. The first completed check establishes a baseline, so it may not create an alert. A later check can compare the source with that baseline and create an alert when the condition is met.

If the monitor is saved but setup cannot start, Ampere shows Saved, but couldn't start monitoring. Open the monitor or list, review the attention guidance, and use the offered retry action. Do not create duplicates while setup is still being reconciled.

If the form itself cannot be saved, correct the message shown in the dialog—for example, choose a project, wait for projects or recipient options to load, replace an invalid attachment, or resolve billing access—then try again.