AI & Agents
OpenMonitor
Last updated 2026-09-06 · benchmark checked 2026-10-25 · unchanged since 2026-09-06 — deterministic & reproducible
OpenMonitor is a scheduled web monitoring agent that sends alerts to Slack.
OpenMonitor at a glance
OpenMonitor is a scheduled web monitoring agent that searches the web for topics you define and sends alert reports to a Slack channel, built for developers and teams who already have a search API key.
Good for
- Teams that want automatic alerts in Slack when new web content matches a topic they care about
- Developers who already have an API key for a search provider like Exa, Tavily, Brave, or Perplexity and want to monitor queries on a schedule
- Users comfortable with CLI setup or a coding agent who want a self-deployed monitoring tool rather than a hosted service
Questions people ask
What does OpenMonitor actually do?
It runs on a schedule you set, queries a web search API based on topics and criteria you specify, filters the results against a sentence you write, and sends a report to a Slack channel.
Which search providers does OpenMonitor support?
It supports more than a dozen providers, including Exa, Parallel, Tavily, Brave, Serper, Firecrawl, Jina, Perplexity, Linkup, You.com, Kagi, Valyu, and Monid. You only need an API key from one of them.
How do I set up OpenMonitor?
You can deploy it with one click to OpenComputer using your own account and API key, or paste a provided setup prompt into a coding agent (such as Claude Code, Codex, Grok, or OpenCode) which installs the CLI, signs you in, deploys the agent, and connects it to Slack.
How does OpenMonitor connect to Slack?
Setup includes creating a Slack app from a provided manifest, installing it to your workspace, inviting the bot to the channel that should receive alerts, and binding that channel so the agent can post reports there.
Does OpenMonitor run continuously once deployed?
It can be deployed to a development environment for testing, but the material states that the daily schedule only runs once deployed to production.
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Legit.Show scored OpenMonitor 68/100 on 2026-10-25, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/openmonitor-website/2026-10-25
Is OpenMonitor production-ready?
Legit.Show scores OpenMonitor 68 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on OpenMonitor (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 93/100
- Accessibility — 89/100
- Security — 45/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 25/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 47/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 153 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Developers · Teams needing web monitoring · Slack users · Search API users
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from openmonitor.website's own website on 2026-09-06.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-25.
Put together from public information, without OpenMonitor's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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