Website Monitoring: Automatic Screenshots Every Hour (Detect Changes & Prove Performance)

Website Monitoring: Automatic Screenshots Every Hour (Detect Changes & Prove Performance) Imagine this: your website goes down at 3 AM. By the time your on-call engineer notices, it's been offline for 45 minutes. When the incident post-mortem happens, your CEO asks: "Where's the proof of the outage? How long was it actually down?" You have logs. But logs aren't proof — they're just text. What you need are screenshots — visual evidence of what your website looked like at 2:15 AM, 3:00 AM, and 3:45 AM. Or worse: you deploy a CSS change on Friday. By Monday, you have 10 angry support tickets about "the site looks broken now." But the screenshots look fine to you. You need side-by-side visual comparison: Friday 5 PM vs. Monday 9 AM. Here's how to set up automatic website monitoring with hourly screenshots — no infrastructure, no headaches. The Problem: Text Logs Aren't Proof Right now, your monitoring setup probably includes: Uptime monitoring (Pingdom, StatusPage) — just HTTP 200/500 code