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Most web monitoring tools are designed for human interaction: you log in, set up topics, and receive alerts. But what if you want to create monitoring topics programmatically, query alerts as structured data, or manage hundreds of monitoring configurations at scale? That's where a monitoring API becomes essential, and it's exactly what the AyeWatch API is built for.
What the AyeWatch Monitoring API Enables
The AyeWatch REST API gives developers programmatic access to the full monitoring pipeline:
- Create and manage monitoring topics: Programmatically create, update, pause, and delete monitoring topics without using the web interface.
- Query alerts as structured data: Retrieve alerts through the API rather than waiting for webhook delivery, enabling pull-based integration patterns and historical analysis.
- Configure delivery channels: Manage webhook endpoints, notification preferences, and alert routing programmatically.
- Monitor monitoring status: Query the status of active monitoring topics, check credit usage, and verify that monitoring is running as expected.
Use Case: Building a Multi-Tenant Monitoring Application
One of the most powerful monitoring API use cases is building multi-tenant applications where each of your customers gets their own monitoring configuration. Instead of each customer managing their monitoring in AyeWatch directly, your application manages it on their behalf through the API.
When a user in your application specifies what they want to monitor, your backend calls the AyeWatch API to create a monitoring topic associated with that user. When AyeWatch detects relevant changes, it delivers alerts via webhook to your application's endpoint, which then routes alerts to the appropriate user through your application's notification system. The embedding web monitoring guide covers this pattern in detail.
Use Case: Automating Research Workflows
Research teams often need to set up monitoring for dozens or hundreds of topics simultaneously, tracking academic papers, regulatory filings, news coverage across many sources. The monitoring API allows scripting this configuration: read a list of research topics from a spreadsheet or database, create AyeWatch monitoring topics for each one via API calls, and then manage the whole portfolio programmatically.
Use Case: Competitive Intelligence Automation
For competitive intelligence teams managing monitoring coverage across dozens of competitors and hundreds of URLs, the API enables managing that scale programmatically. A configuration file defining all monitoring topics and their settings can be version-controlled and applied programmatically, treating competitive intelligence configuration as infrastructure-as-code.
Authentication and Rate Limits
The AyeWatch API uses API key authentication. Include your API key in the Authorization: Bearer {api_key} header on all requests. API keys are available in your AyeWatch account settings under the API section (available on Pro+ plans and above). Rate limits apply and are documented in the full API documentation.
Getting Started With the API
API access is included in the Pro+ plan at $19/month. To get started: upgrade to Pro+, generate an API key in your account settings, and explore the API documentation. The quickstart guide walks through creating your first topic, setting up webhook delivery, and querying alerts through the API in under 15 minutes.
Basically,
The AyeWatch monitoring API transforms web monitoring from a tool you use into infrastructure you build on. Whether you're embedding monitoring in your product, automating research workflows at scale, or managing competitive intelligence programmatically, the API provides the building blocks you need.
Try AyeWatch free and explore the API when you're ready to build something more sophisticated.