# Website monitoring brief

Planning template, not a product import file. Replace brackets with your decisions.

- Brief owner: [name]
- Revision date: [date]
- Review or approval: [not reviewed / reviewed by name on date]
- Decision this monitor supports: [the question a person must answer]
- Subject and stable identity: [product, component, page or API resource]
- Source URL: [URL]
- Currency, variant, locale, region and account state: [relevant conditions]
- Capture viewport and interaction state: [dimensions and actions]
- Capture readiness: [what must be present before comparison]
- Included region or fields: [selector or field paths plus surrounding context]
- Expected match count: [count and reason]
- Excluded content and reason: [specific exclusions]
- Material-change example: [expected review or alert]
- Quiet-change example: [what stays in evidence and why it does not notify]
- Missing or ambiguous evidence: [recorded outcome and investigation owner]
- Evidence to retain: [before/after, timestamp, environment, fields, screenshots]
- Check cadence and reason: [interval appropriate to the decision]
- Review owner and backup: [named people]
- Review response target: [agreed operational target]
- Destination: [existing approved channel]
- Retention and access: [agreed policy]
- Separate manual or interaction checks: [what this monitor cannot establish]
- Triggers to revise this brief: [redesign, identity changes, scope changes]

## Acceptance checks

| Case | Controlled input | Actual result | Evidence location | Reviewer and date | Follow-up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Known material change | [input] | Not tested | [link] | Not reviewed | [action] |
| Known quiet change | [input] | Not tested | [link] | Not reviewed | [action] |
| Missing or ambiguous subject | [input] | Not tested | [link] | Not reviewed | [action] |

Use passed, failed, not tested or cannot determine with a reason. Keep original evidence when correcting an interpretation.

Guide: https://onchange.app/resources/website-monitoring-brief