7Browser monitors
A browser monitor checks that a visitor can finish a task on your site, such as signing in. This chapter shows how to build one step by step, how to read its results and what to do when it fails. Section 2.5 has a short summary.
In this chapter
- 7.1What is a browser monitor
- 7.2Which monitor should I use?
- 7.3Create a browser monitor
- 7.4The steps you can use
- 7.5Finding the right element (selectors)
- 7.6Example: check that users can log in
- 7.7Timeouts
- 7.8Logging in safely with secrets
- 7.9Reading the results
- 7.10Screenshots of failed checks
- 7.11Websites you can and can't check
- 7.12Browser runs and your plan