Uptime and competitor price monitoring for online stores

Why this matters for online stores

A shop that is down at 8pm on a sale night loses orders it will never get back, and the owner often finds out from a customer message hours later. Slow or half-working pages — a cart that errors, a certificate warning at checkout — are just as costly and even harder to notice from the admin side.

What to monitor

• Your homepage and the cart or checkout page — the pages where an error costs real money.
• A best-selling product page and your category page, to catch template or plugin breakage.
• Your SSL certificate and domain, so neither lapses during a campaign.
• Up to five competitor product pages for the items you compete on, for price drops and stock-outs.

How OwlHound helps

• 5-minute checks, confirmed before alerts — failures are retried and confirmed, so every email is real. How uptime monitoring works.
• SSL and domain expiry warnings well before anything lapses. Learn more.
• A weekly report with uptime, outages and response times, and optional Slack or Discord alerts.

Price and stock intelligence

When a competitor drops the price of the product you both sell, or runs out of stock, that's a decision point: match, hold or take their customers. Hourly checks turn those moments into an email instead of something you notice a week late. Works best on independent stores; large marketplaces often block automated checks, and we'll say so rather than show stale data.