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Who's Watching It?

FlareWarden checks your checkout page every 30 seconds. When a failure is detected, it's validated from multiple regions across our 18 global locations to confirm it's a real outage, not a network blip. You'll typically receive an alert within a minute or two via email, Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, or webhooks. Compare that to the industry standard of 5-minute check intervals, where you might not hear about a problem for 5+ minutes.

Yes. Dependency monitoring tracks the services your store relies on, including Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments, Square, and any other API endpoint you configure. When a payment provider has issues or elevated latency, you'll know immediately and can take action, whether that's displaying a message to customers, switching to a backup processor, or simply being ready with a response when support tickets arrive.

It's very unlikely. FlareWarden uses cross-region validation to confirm outages from multiple geographic locations before alerting you. By default, checks from 3 of our 18 regions must agree before an alert fires (you can increase this threshold). If only one region has trouble reaching your site (which is common during traffic spikes when a single monitoring location gets congested), you won't receive an alert. This is especially important during Black Friday, flash sales, and other high-traffic events when false alarms would be most disruptive.

Yes. Content monitors watch the actual content on your pages — check that the Add to Cart button is present, verify prices are in the expected range, detect “Out of Stock” text, count product images, and alert on unexpected changes. Set up checks visually with the point-and-click picker. No code needed. Content checks run on the same 30-second schedule as your other monitors.

About 2 minutes. Enter your store URL into Smart Setup, and it automatically discovers your checkout page, product pages, payment processors, CDN, and other dependencies. Review the suggestions, adjust check intervals if you want, click confirm, and your entire store is monitored. No configuration files, no agents to install, no code changes. It works with any publicly accessible URL.

FlareWarden works with every e-commerce platform because it monitors from the outside, just like your customers experience your site. That includes Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Squarespace Commerce, Wix Stores, and fully custom-built stores. If your customers can reach it in a browser, FlareWarden can monitor it. Smart Setup automatically adapts to your platform's URL structure.

During high-traffic events, your store's third-party dependencies are under the most strain. Dependency monitoring tracks your payment gateways, CDN, search provider, and shipping APIs in real time. If Stripe starts showing elevated latency or your CDN begins dropping requests, you'll know about it before your customers do. This gives you time to activate fallbacks, display status messages, or contact your provider's support, all before the issue becomes a customer-facing crisis.

The free plan includes 15 monitors with 5-minute check intervals, cross-region validation, email alerts, and a public status page. That's enough to cover your storefront, checkout page, and a couple of key dependencies. When you need 30-second checks, more monitors, or additional alert channels like Slack and PagerDuty, you can upgrade anytime. The free plan has no time limit and no credit card required.

It depends on your store's revenue. A store doing $10,000/day loses roughly $7 per minute when checkout is completely down. A store doing $100,000/day loses $70/minute. A 5-hour undetected outage can easily cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. During peak events like Black Friday, when traffic is multiples of normal, the losses scale accordingly. The real cost also includes lost ad spend, abandoned carts that never return, and long-term customer trust erosion.