Your checkout, product pages, payment API, order sync jobs, and SSL certificate all need watching — 24/7, from every region your customers shop from. Spectra monitors all of it and alerts your team in under 45 seconds.
Your store isn't one URL — it's a stack of services, APIs, background jobs, and certificates that all need independent monitoring.
The pages your customers land on — homepage, category, PDP, search results. Any downtime here is immediate lost revenue.
Monitor for HTTP 200, response-time thresholds, and keyword presence. Assert "Add to cart" is present on product pages — a 200 that returns a blank template still triggers an alert.
The highest-value pages in your entire store. A 200ms checkout slowdown measurably reduces conversion. A 500 error stops revenue entirely.
Monitor your checkout URL with a strict response-time threshold. Keyword-check for "Place order" or the payment-form element. Set the check interval to 1 minute on Essential+.
Your Stripe charge endpoint, order creation API, and inventory reservation — all must return the right data, not just a 200.
Send a real request to your charge and reserve endpoints and assert on the JSON — status "success", reserved: true — so a 200 with wrong data still fires an alert.
Inventory sync from your supplier, order fulfilment updates, price recalculation — when these stop running, you oversell stock you don't have.
Add one curl to the end of each job. If the job doesn't ping Spectra on schedule, you're alerted immediately — catching crashes, scheduler failures, and deploy-induced gaps silently.
Your orders database going unreachable cascades to checkout failures instantly. Redis going down means every page load fails.
TCP-connect to your PostgreSQL (:5432), MySQL (:3306), or Redis (:6379) port. No credentials needed — just confirms the port is open. Catches silent DB restarts and network isolation.
An expired certificate turns your whole store into a security warning; an expired domain takes it offline entirely.
Track certificate expiry at 60/30/14/7 days plus chain, issuer, and hostname validation — and monitor domain-registration expiry before either takes the store offline.
Checkout is 5 separate systems working in sequence. One failure at any point silently kills conversions — even if all the others show green.
HTTP monitor on commercebolt.com/checkout with a keyword assertion for the "Place order" button. 1-min interval, 2 regions.
POST to api.commercebolt.com/v1/charge with a test payload. Assert status "success" in the JSON response.
POST to api.commercebolt.com/v1/reserve. Assert reserved: true and quantity > 0 in the response.
TCP connect to db.commercebolt.com:5432. Confirms the DB is accepting connections even when no app error has surfaced yet.
Certificate expiry tracked at 60/30/14/7 days. An expired SSL doesn't just show a warning — payment processors refuse to connect.
CommerceBolt runs 12 Spectra monitors across 6 monitor types. Here's what the monitor list looks like — and what each one catches.
Receive real-time notifications whenever an outage, performance issue, SSL expiration, or service degradation is detected. Stay informed across all your communication tools and take action before customers are affected.
Answers to common questions teams ask us
Add HTTP monitors for your storefront and checkout URLs, API monitors for your payment and inventory endpoints, and SSL monitoring for your domain — no platform plugin required.
Yes. Use an API monitor to send a test request to your charge endpoint and assert on the JSON response, so a broken gateway is caught even when it returns a 200.
Set a response-time threshold on the checkout monitor. Spectra alerts on slow-but-up conditions — which quietly kill conversions — not just hard outages.
Yes — publish a branded status page so customers and stakeholders see real-time availability during incidents.
No. Most monitors are point-and-click — paste a URL, pick a check type. Only advanced API assertions benefit from a developer's input.
