Code Monitor Recommendations
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Hi all,
I was wondering if you have any recommendations for a code monitor? We'd like to keep track of any code and content changes on a couple of websites. We've taken a look at Page Monitor: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhgklkefakciniebenbfclihhmmfcd?hl=en but I'm not sure if it tracks code changes? Any suggestions for free or paid tools would be appreciated.
Edit: We'd also like to avoid a tool that requires any tracking code changes or anything that involves a database/FTP connection.
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Not really no. I only use it per instance versus as a more constant change tool. If you have a dev in-house though they could probably setup something that runs on a virtual machine and sends reports on changes. Or you could run it after getting a change report from one of the other, more standard types of page change tools to see if the site is now making different HTTP requests as well.
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Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the great resources. I was just wondering if you had any tips on how best to set up Fiddler to monitor for code changes?
Thanks,
Holly
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Some great suggestions above - https://www.codeguard.com/ is also worth considering - relatively cheap and effective.
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I've used this one. It checks the code once a day, and no need to install anything.
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For something code based, you might have to setup an instance of Fiddler to do that as most page change monitoring tools are just looking at the readable text versus the code. Plus server side code changes that are executed prior to the page being displayed will get missed by either type. Here's some more that might suit your needs...
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