Walk-through of Fluxguard’s Web Console

Fluxguard organizes monitored content and functionality in the following key interfaces:

Comparison Viewer: view text, HTML, pixel, and other changes between captured versions.
Dashboard: quickly view detected changes across all monitored sites.
Site View: optionally organize different monitoring strategies into discrete sessions.
Session View: organize monitored pages and adjust key crawl settings.
Page View: view historical versions and add page-specific browser actions, such as form submissions.

We discuss each of these in detail below.

Comparison Viewer

View color-coded side-by-side change comparisons between any captured versions.
View text, rendered DOM (HTML), pixel, network activity, and other changes.
View changes between any two versions.

Explore color-coded changes in a side-by-side viewer

View entire document, or just the parts that changed

Fluxguard extracts text from each monitored page and looks for differences

Fluxguard looks for pixel changes to screenshots

Fluxguard overlays screenshots to highlight differences between versions

Detect changes to network activity, including new scripts, images, and other resources loaded on any page

Detect changes between versions to cookies, headers, more

Detect changes to rendered HTML. Fluxguard uses a full browser for every page crawled.

Detect changes to AI extracted terms, such as people, places, organizations

Fluxguard creates point-in-time archives. Compare changes between any two versions.

Dashboard

Fluxguard’s Dashboard provides an overview of all monitored sites organized by recency of change.
Click the links next to each screenshot to view key change details. You can navigate to a Site View by clicking any domain name. You can navigate to a Page View by clicking any page link. In each site card, click the 3 vertical dots for shortcuts to monitoring settings.
To add more users, adjust email frequency, and other account-wide settings, visit Account Settings.

Rich dashboard provides quick views of all recent changes

View pixel changes between captured screenshots from multiple versions

Quickly view color-coded changes for any monitored page—no need to click through length additional screens

Multiple ways to configure your Fluxguard dashboard to support your use case

View all recent text changes for a monitored site in one simple view

View changes in a table

Send personalized reports to different recipients. Grant read/write/admin access. Utilize Webhooks and API.

Site View

Site View is where you can review sessions associated with a site. This is also where new sessions can be added. Sessions are small monitoring “recipes” for a particular site. For example, you may have a session for logging into a site, another session for checking legal agreements, another for monitoring order flow, and another to look for home page defacement. In many cases, only one session is necessary for each site.
Use the toolbar switch to pause monitoring for the entire site. Click the gear icon to categorize sites. Email us to verify your site for faster crawling. Click the session name to go to the Session View where most key crawl and monitoring settings are housed.

Add sessions to support multiple site-specific monitoring use cases

Site Settings

Session View

Session View is a key view for organizing monitoring, adjusting crawl and monitoring sessions, and activating new pages to monitor. You will frequently be on this page, so spend some time understanding content here.
Session View catalogs all pages ordered by sequence. Use the up and down arrows to re-order. This is helpful if some pages (and related actions) need to occur first. For example, logging into a site may need to happen before adding a product into a cart.
Cookies and local storage are preserved from one page to the next in any given session. This allows you to orchestrate sophisticated multi-step, multi-page explorations of any site.
To reach Session Settings, click the gear icon. This is a key area of our product and contains assorted crawl settings for each session.
Session Settings is where you can optimize Fluxguard’s monitoring, including:
- Determine when a new version should be recorded, based on text, HTML, visual, or network changes.
- Add filters, network blocks, and transforms to reduce false-positives.

Add pages and orchestrate crawling—Fluxguard preserves cookies across multiple pages, enabling complex monitoring scenarios

View pages in cards with detailed text—this allows you to quickly scan changes across an entire site

Automatically find, detect, and monitor/review new pages. Here, we have crawled the BBC news page, and we auto-find all new links (listed at the bottom).

Configure different ML models to use to score and filter changes

Fluxguard allows you to select multiple ways to detect changes

ML entity extraction provides a powerful way to filter changes by category

Instrument monitoring frequency, proxies, cookies, and more

Configure URL finding: Fluxguard extracts and proposes new URLs to monitor

Use our Visual Selector to isolate areas to ignore to reduce false positives

Specify rules to alarm content defects, such as missing links (e.g., privacy, TOS) or page elements (e.g., logo, nav)

Score changes with ML models designed to minimize false positives and only surface changes relevant to your business

Easy configuration of AI prompts to evaluate and summarize newly found pages

Adjust AI prompts with your business rules to assess and summarize detected changes

Page View

Page View retains all prior captures for the given page: review all HTML, network activity, cookies, extracted text, screenshots, and more for every version for this page.
Page View is where you can add form submissions, clicks, and more.