Most teams depend on third-party tools, platforms, and APIs, and those vendors change things all the time. ChangeTower lets you monitor release notes, changelogs, and API documentation so you hear about new features, breaking changes, and deprecations as soon as they're published.
Step 1: Decide which vendor pages to monitor
Common examples include:
Release notes, changelogs, and "What's new" pages
API reference and developer documentation
Deprecation, migration, and sunset notices
Developer and platform policies
Pricing, usage limits, and rate limit pages
Step 2: Add your pages
In the left navigation menu, click on New Monitor. Use single-page monitoring for one page, or Monitor Multiple Pages to add pages from many vendors at once. Our guide to importing URLs walks you through it.
Step 3: Choose how changes are detected
Smart Monitor – describe the changes that matter to your team. Read our Smart Monitor guide to learn how to set it up. For example:
Notify me when a new release or version is published
Notify me when an endpoint is deprecated or a breaking change is announced
Notify me when rate limits or usage limits change
Specific Elements – on long documentation pages, focus on just the section you depend on, such as a single endpoint or parameter table. Our guide to monitoring specific elements shows you how.
Step 4: Reduce noise
Documentation sites often include navigation menus, sidebars, version selectors, and "last updated" timestamps that change without affecting the content. Ignore those areas so you're only notified about real updates. Our guide to ignoring page elements shows you how.
Step 5: Customize monitor details
In the Details section, you can:
Add tags by vendor, integration, or owning team
Set the monitoring frequency
Enable or disable email alerts
Step 6: Get changes to the people who need to act
Send notifications to a Slack channel used by your engineering or product team
Use webhooks to send changes into your issue tracker or internal tools
Use notification states such as "Needs action" and "No impact"
Create monitors right from your browser
Reading a vendor's docs and spot a page you depend on? With the ChangeTower Chrome extension, you can set up a monitor without leaving the page. Click the ChangeTower icon in your browser toolbar and describe what to watch for, for example "Watch for breaking changes in this API reference."