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 start with a curated template, begin with an empty form, 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 Ampere 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 100 active monitors. If the limit is reached, New monitor is unavailable and template cards cannot be selected until an active monitor is paused or archived.

Start with a monitor template

Open Monitoring, then select Browse templates. The same library is available from the Alerts Inbox, the Monitors page, the first-run screen, and the page's Cmd+K actions.

The library contains templates grouped by marketer job, including competitive moves, customer voice, content and discovery, campaigns and social, partners and events, and company signals. Search for the signal you want to watch, such as pricing, reviews, ads, or launches.

Select a template to open New monitor with editable suggestions. Review and change every field before creating the monitor:

• Replace bracketed placeholders such as [Competitor] or [category].
• Add a real public URL when the template is designed for a specific page.
• Choose the Project yourself. A template never selects it for you.
• Review the suggested cadence and any optional Ampere follow-up.
• Expand What to expect to see the evidence the alert may include and the template's limits.

Selecting a template does not create a monitor, run a check, start Ampere, add attachments, or change model, effort, machine, Project, or recipient choices. You can select Clear template to return to an empty form.

Create a monitor from scratch

1. Open Monitoring from the app navigation.
2. Select New monitor.
3. Enter a short, recognizable Name.
4. Choose the Project where Ampere 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 Ampere to if you want an Ampere follow-up after an alert.
9. Review any follow-up attachments and the model, effort, and machine settings.
10. Choose Organization 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 Ampere follow-up work after a change, that work uses credits separately.

Add an optional Ampere follow-up

Leave When it changes, ask Ampere to blank when you only need an alert and its evidence. If you add a follow-up instruction, tell Ampere 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 Ampere

You can also ask Ampere to help set up a monitor in an interactive chat. Ampere 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, replace every template placeholder, add the required public page URL, choose a project, wait for projects or recipient options to load, replace an invalid attachment, or resolve billing access—then try again.