What Monitoring is and when to use it

Monitoring helps your team keep watch on a public signal that matters—such as a competitor pricing page, product changelog, or recurring review theme—and creates an alert when a check finds a change that matches your condition.

Each alert is designed for review. It can include one or more findings, source links, excerpts, and before-and-after evidence. You can also ask Joule to do optional follow-up work after a relevant change is found.

How Monitoring works

A monitor brings together five parts:

1. Project: the workspace context and destination for any Joule follow-up work.
2. What to watch for: the condition that defines a relevant change.
3. Source: an optional page or website to focus on. Without a URL, the monitor searches the wider web.
4. Cadence: hourly, daily, or weekly checks.
5. Follow-up: an optional instruction that tells Joule what to prepare after an alert.

The first successful check normally establishes a baseline. A later check compares current evidence with that baseline and can create an alert when the condition is met.

Monitoring is provider-backed. Public pages can change, block access, return partial evidence, or be temporarily unavailable. Ampere cannot promise that every change will be found, that an alert will be immediate, or that wider-web results will be exhaustive.

Page-specific and wider-web monitoring

Add a URL when the source itself is known and important. This is a good fit for a specific pricing page, changelog, public listing, or other page your team wants to revisit consistently.

Leave the URL blank when the condition is broader than one page, such as watching for a product announcement or a recurring market topic across the public web. Wider-web monitoring can discover evidence from more than one source, but its coverage is still provider-dependent and may be partial.

In either mode, write the condition precisely enough to separate a meaningful signal from cosmetic or irrelevant changes.

Checks, alerts, and evidence

A check is one attempt to evaluate the monitor. The monitor detail page keeps check history and shows states such as running, succeeded, or failed.

An alert is created when a completed check finds something that matches the monitoring condition. One alert can contain multiple findings. Open the alert to review:

• The finding summary and when it was observed.
• Source URLs and excerpts when available.
• Current and previous evidence for page changes.
• The associated check and monitor.
• Any optional Joule follow-up status and output.

Unread is personal to you; resolving an alert is shared with the organization. That lets each teammate manage what they have seen while the team shares one open-versus-resolved workflow.

Monitoring or Scheduled Tasks?

Use Monitoring when the job starts with a change in an external signal:

• Alert when a competitor changes pricing or packaging.
• Watch a changelog for launches that affect positioning.
• Look for a recurring review theme and preserve the supporting evidence.

Use a Scheduled Task when the work should run because a time arrived, whether or not an external change happened:

• Prepare a weekly market summary every Monday.
• Run a supported AI Tool every day.
• Ask Joule to refresh a recurring report on a monthly schedule.

A monitor can start optional Joule work after a matching change. A Scheduled Task starts its saved work on its cadence or when you select Run now. Choose the trigger that matches the job instead of using Monitoring as a general scheduler.

Cadence, limits, and credits

Monitors support hourly, daily, and weekly checks. More frequent checks can surface changes sooner and use more credits.

When monitoring billing is active, the create and edit surfaces show the current credits per check and a 30-day estimate for the selected cadence. Joule follow-up work uses credits separately when a change is found.

An organization can have up to 20 active monitors. Paused or archived monitors do not continue normal checks. If credits or subscription access prevent a check, the monitor can show an attention state until the underlying issue is resolved.

Optional Joule follow-up work

Use When it changes, ask Joule to when an alert should lead to a reviewable deliverable—for example, a summary, impact analysis, response brief, or set of talking points.

The follow-up uses the monitor's project, attachments, model, effort, and machine settings. The alert can show a response preview and output summary, and authorized session members can open the full Joule session.

Follow-ups do not publish or send marketing work automatically. Review the evidence and Joule output before taking action.

When Monitoring is not the right fit

Monitoring is not a guarantee, a complete market archive, or an instant notification system. It is also not a replacement for a recurring report whose purpose is to run on a fixed timetable.

Use the source's own critical notification system when missing or delaying a change would create legal, security, financial, or operational risk. Use Ampere Monitoring for evidence-backed marketing signals that benefit from review and optional follow-up work.