Watch list
The dashboard shows all your watches with:- Page URL and favicon — the address is a link, so clicking it opens the page in a new tab
- Last checked time
- Change status indicator
- Health state when a check is failing
Status indicators
A failing watch also carries a health badge saying why it failed and what to do about it, and its owner is emailed after a few consecutive failures. See Watch Health & Failure Alerts.
Adding watches
Paste the address into the dashboard and press Find What to Watch. Site Spy loads the page and shows it to you as a picture, and you click the part you care about — the price, the availability line, the heading. Only changes inside that element email you. You cannot finish without choosing something, and that is deliberate: a watch pointed at a whole page alerts on every visitor counter, cookie banner and timestamp on it, which is noise rather than news. Where a page offers obvious candidates, they appear as chips above the picture (Price, Availability, Heading) — clicking one selects that element. They are found by inspecting the page itself, not by a model guessing at intent. You can also drag a box around an area rather than clicking one thing, and a click inside a list is answered with a question about whether you meant that one item or the whole list. See Choosing What to Watch for all of it. You can also add watches from the browser extension or AI Chat.Rechecking
Click the recheck button on any watch to trigger an immediate server-side check. The check runs in the background — if it takes longer than 90 seconds, you’ll see a notification that it may still be processing.Viewing changes
From the dashboard, you can access three views for each watch:- Preview — See the latest snapshot rendered as a page
- Timeline — Browse all snapshots and compare any two
- Diff — Compare the latest two snapshots side by side
Pausing and resuming
Click the pause button on a watch to temporarily stop checking it. The watch stays in your list with all its settings and history intact. Click resume to start checking again. Site Spy also pauses a watch by itself after a long run of failures it cannot recover from, and emails you when that happens. Resuming clears the error and queues an immediate check. See Watch Health & Failure Alerts.Watch settings
Click the gear icon on any watch to open its settings — check interval, screenshot capture, filters, and more. See Watch Settings for details.Deleting watches
Click the delete button on any watch to remove it. A confirmation dialog appears before deletion. If deletion fails, the error persists until you dismiss it or retry.Filtering, sorting, and search
The toolbar above the list gives you:- Search — filters by URL and title
- Status — show only watches in a given state, such as errored or paused
- Last changed — narrow to watches that changed within a time window
- Sortable columns — click Site, Checked, or Changed to sort by that column