Website Smoke Test & Monitor

Monitor public websites and catch broken pages, missing content, redirect mistakes, regex mismatches, and slow responses before users report them. This Apify Actor provides lightweight website monitoring, automated smoke testing, and content regression checks without maintaining browser infrastructure.

Why use it?

• Detect public website failures in minutes
• Turn repeatable checks into structured JSON results
• Run manually, on a schedule, through the Apify API, or from CI/CD
• Test multiple named workflows and sequential GET steps in one run
• Keep checks safe: GET requests only, with private and loopback targets blocked

What it checks

• HTTP status codes
• Redirect destinations
• Required and forbidden text
• Regular-expression matches
• Response-time budgets
• Multiple public pages in one workflow

Each tested step is written to the default dataset. A run summary is also saved to the SUMMARY key-value-store record.

Example: website smoke test

{
  "workflows": [
    {
      "name": "Public homepage",
      "steps": [
        {
          "name": "Homepage is healthy",
          "url": "https://example.com/",
          "expectStatus": 200,
          "expectText": ["Example Domain"],
          "rejectText": ["Internal Server Error"],
          "maxLatencyMs": 5000
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "failRunOnAssertion": false
}

Result

Every step returns a structured record containing the workflow and step name, requested and final URL, HTTP status, latency, assertion results, retry count, and failure details. Set failRunOnAssertion to true when a failed assertion should fail the Actor run for CI/CD or scheduled monitoring.

Common use cases

• Website uptime and content monitoring
• Post-deployment smoke tests
• Landing-page and documentation checks
• Redirect migration validation
• Public API endpoint checks
• Scheduled regression checks for agencies managing several sites

Pricing

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• $0.004 per result (tested step)
• $0.001 per Actor start

A typical one-step check costs about $0.005. Platform usage is included in the listed event pricing.

Safety and limits

The Actor intentionally performs GET requests only. It does not submit forms, log in, purchase, or send data to third-party sites. Private, loopback, and local network targets are blocked.

FAQ

Can I schedule checks?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run the Actor at regular intervals and connect webhooks or integrations to react to failed runs.

Can I call it through an API?

Yes. Use the API tab on this Actor page to run it synchronously or asynchronously and retrieve dataset results.

Is this a full browser test runner?

No. It is a fast, deterministic HTTP workflow checker for public GET endpoints. It does not click buttons, execute purchases, or submit forms.