Pingpile

Pingpile watches the websites you run and tells you when something breaks. It checks each site's home page around the clock, and fetches, validates and counts every sitemap. It notices more than a status code: an error page served as if it were fine, a page that suddenly tells search engines not to index it, a sitemap that stops loading or shrinks below a minimum you set, and a domain that is about to expire.

From the conversation your assistant can tell you whether anything is down right now, how a site has been doing this week, what is wrong with a sitemap and which pages in it are broken. It can check a site or a sitemap on the spot, add a site by its address, and change what you would change on the dashboard: how often a site is checked, its timeout, a maintenance window, a text its home page must contain, a sitemap's minimum, muting a site's alerts, and your alert emails. If you work in more than one workspace, it can list them, switch between them and invite a colleague.

Every tool says what it does and what it changes. Reads are marked read-only. Anything that removes or overwrites something, silences alerts, sends a mail, or runs a check that can send an alert is marked destructive, so an assistant can ask before it runs.

Who it is for: people who look after one website or many and want to hear about an outage or a broken sitemap before their visitors or a search engine do. Site owners, developers, SEO people and small agencies. Sites verified in Google Search Console are picked up on their own once that account is connected; any other site can be added by its address.

Limitations: you need a Pingpile account, and you sign in when you connect. Your assistant sees only your own workspaces. Connecting a Google account happens in the Pingpile web app and not in the conversation, and so do billing, the alert webhook, removing members and deleting the account. The pages a sitemap lists are only checked for sites verified in Search Console. Checks run from one location, so use Pingpile alongside your other monitoring and not as the only one.