Conductor Monitoring Setup Guide
This guide is primarily intended for users responsible for configuring your organization's new Conductor Monitoring account. Some of the steps below require an Editor, Manager, or Admin user type. For more information about user types, refer to the Users & Roles article.
Step 1: Add websites
Who can do it? Manager or Admin
Why?
Adding websites is how you determine what pages you want to monitor with Conductor Monitoring.
You can add as many websites to Conductor Monitoring as you want in increments of 100 pages, as long as they fit in your Page Bundle.
Step 2: Manage monitoring settings
Who can do it? Editor, Manager, or Admin
Why?
Conductor Monitoring allows you to adjust the monitoring settings for each website in your account to ensure your websites have the optimal monitoring setup that is tailored to your specific needs.
You can configure crawl settings like the crawl speed and frequency, the device type, the user agent, and more.
Step 3: Integrate Other Website Performance Metrics
Who can do it? Editor, Manager, or Admin
Why?
Integrating your web analytics and Google Search Console accounts into Conductor Monitoring makes it easier to analyze performance and prioritize optimization effort. Segment pages by performance to break down your analysis and focus on the most important and effective (or potentially underperforming) parts of your site.
How?
- Integrate Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics with Conductor Monitoring
- Integrate Google Search Console with Conductor Monitoring
Step 4: Create segments and configure alerts
Who can do it? Editor, Manager, or Admin
Why?
Segments allow you to create logical groupings of your pages based on your needs, which you can then use to make your reporting more effective and to customize the auditing suite. Conductor Monitoring comes with one default segment ("Important pages"), but you can create more to best address your reporting needs.
Alerts notify you about all important changes that happen on your website. By default, you receive them via email, but you can also get them via Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Step 5: Add your team
Who can do it? Manager or Admin
Why?
With Conductor Monitoring you never pay per seat, so you’re not limited by the number of team members you can add to your account. Consider any people at your organization who might benefit from the insights derived from Conductor Monitoring's data.
Step 6: Get the Chrome Extension
Who can do it? Any users
Why?
The Conductor Monitoring Chrome extension allows you to view Conductor Monitoring metrics and data about your websites directly in your browser. When browsing a website that is being monitored by Conductor Monitoring, you can easily view all Conductor Monitoring data about the page you are currently visiting.
Bonus Recommendation: Build Custom Elements
Who can do it? Admin
Why?
Customers on our Enterprise plan can use custom element extraction to track any meaningful on-page element—such as publication dates, out-of-stock statuses, or product review scores. Empower your team to closely monitor critical site changes and receive tailored alerts, so you can act quickly and optimize workflows based on the page data most relevant to your organization.
Other Products? Configure them next...
If your organization also has Conductor Creator or Conductor Intelligence, be sure to configure them as well!
What's next? Get Trained!
Who can do it? Any users
Why?
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