Keyword monitoring

A site can load with a healthy status code and still be broken: a database error where your content should be, a blank page, or a checkout that quietly stopped rendering. Keyword monitoring catches that by watching the actual text on the page, either a word that should always be there or one that should never appear.

Available on: paid plans (Hobby and above).

What it checks

You give PageWarden a word or phrase and say whether it should be present or absent. On each check, PageWarden loads the page and confirms the rule holds.

• Present is the common case: pick text that only shows when the page is truly working, such as your product name, a price, or footer content. If it disappears, the check fails and an incident opens.
• Absent watches for text that should never be there, such as Error, Exception, or Out of stock. If it turns up, the check fails.

You can also require an exact case-sensitive match. This is a reachability check, so it is confirmed across regions like uptime.

Set it up

You choose the check when you create the monitor.

1. On the dashboard, select Add monitor.
2. Choose the Keyword type.
3. Enter the page URL and the exact word or phrase to look for.
4. Choose whether the text must be present or absent, and turn on case-sensitive if the exact capitalization matters.
5. Name the monitor and select Create.

Good to know

• Pick text that only appears when the page is truly working, such as content that is loaded from your database, not static text in the page template.
• Keep the phrase short and stable. Text that changes often (a live counter, a date) will cause false alarms.

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