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A monitor watches a website around the clock and alerts you when the data you care about changes, such as a new filing, a price move, or a status update. Use a monitor when minutes matter. For data you need once or on a schedule, create a workflow instead.

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Create a monitor

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Choose Real-time

Select Add workflow in the sidebar. Open the product type menu below the prompt and select Real-time.
The product type menu below the setup prompt, with Workflow and Real-time options
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Describe what to watch

Name the page and the change you care about. For example: “Monitor clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=obesity for new or updated studies. Alert me when a study’s status or enrollment changes.”Source detected confirms the URL Kadoa will watch.
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Pick where alerts go

Type @ in the prompt, or select Notifications, and pick a channel. A monitor needs at least one, unless a template provides notifications. Select Create channel to add an email address, Slack channel, webhook, or WebSocket.
A real-time prompt with the notification channel list open, showing email, webhook, and other channels and a Create channel option
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Send it

Select the send button. Kadoa’s agent builds the monitor and narrates each step. If it needs something from you, it asks in the chat. Once the monitor is live, its header shows Running and Real-time.

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See what changed

Every change appears in the monitor’s History as a Data changed entry, with a count of added, removed, and updated records. Select an entry to open it.
  • Data shows the records that changed.
  • Screenshot shows the page before and after the change. Switch between Compare, Side by side, Before, and After.
A running real-time monitor with a Data changed entry selected in History, comparing screenshots of the page before and after the change

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Tune your alerts

Open the monitor’s Notifications tab to choose which changes alert you.
  • Track fields: alert only when certain fields change, such as status or price.
  • Filters: alert only when values match, such as a price above 100.
  • Type of change: alert on updated, added, or removed records.
  • AI summary: add a one or two sentence summary of each change.
See Notifications for every option. To report an edited record as one update, the monitor needs a key field.

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How monitors differ from workflows

  • A monitor has no schedule. It runs continuously until you pause it.
  • You cannot start a monitor run by hand.
  • A monitor uses a slot while it runs, for at least 30 days. See Usage & billing.
  • If a monitor goes down and comes back, Kadoa sends workflow_recovered to your health notifications.
  • Observability shows each monitor’s uptime instead of a run success rate.

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Create monitors from code or your AI tool

  • SDK & API: call createRealtimeWorkflow in the Node SDK, or POST /v5/agent with productType: "realtime". See Work with the agent.
  • MCP: ask your AI tool to monitor a page. It calls create_realtime_monitor, and list_changes returns what changed. See MCP tools.