Monitoring and alerts
Monitoring: uptime, SSL and scheduled re-audits
What Semhack watches after a website’s first audit, how often, and which alerts it sends.
Monitoring starts on its own: once a website has its first audit, Semhack begins watching its homepage. Everything is on Monitoring.
What it watches
| Watch | How |
|---|---|
| Uptime | The homepage is checked every 5 minutes by default (you can choose 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes). A site counts as down after 2 failed checks in a row. |
| SSL certificate | Read once a day. You’re warned when fewer than 14 days are left or the certificate isn’t trusted. |
| Scheduled re-audits | The homepage is re-audited weekly. Add more pages (up to 25 per website, 200 per workspace, within your plan) and choose daily or weekly for each. |
Uptime history is kept per check for 90 days, and as hourly and daily summaries after that.
Alerts
- Site down or back up: The homepage failed two checks in a row, and when it recovers.
- SSL certificate expiring: Fewer than 14 days left, or the certificate isn’t trusted.
- Audit score dropped: A monitored page scores 5 or more points below its previous audit.
- Important check started failing: A high-importance check passed last time and fails now.
- robots.txt blocks Google: robots.txt now stops Googlebot from crawling a monitored page.
- Page became noindex: A monitored page now tells search engines not to index it.
- Search Console clicks drop: A new traffic drop in a client’s Search Console data.
- Mentions in comments: Someone @mentions a member in a comment on an action. Only that member is told.
- Overdue actions: Monday reminder to each member about actions assigned to them that are past their due date.
- Tracked keyword moved: A tracked keyword’s Search Console average position moved 3 or more places week over week, or it lost all impressions.
Alerts appear under the bell in the top bar and on Notifications. They’re also emailed, at most one email per hour bundling what happened. In alert settings you can switch off email alerts or the weekly digest for yourself; owners and admins can turn individual alert types off for the workspace.
Every Monday morning a weekly digest email summarizes the week across your websites.