Events timeline

See what changed, and when.

SiteVitals brings the important things it detects into one shared timeline: downtime, security issues, SEO changes, performance shifts, integrity warnings and content updates. Add your own notes for deployments, campaigns or maintenance too, so when something changes later you have a record of what happened around the same time.

SiteVitals events timeline

One timeline for the whole site

The useful question is often not “what broke?” but “what changed before it?”

Websites are rarely changed by one person in one place. A marketer edits a landing page, a developer deploys code, a plugin updates, a certificate nears expiry, a third-party script changes, or performance starts drifting. Each event on its own can look harmless.

The events timeline puts those moments in order. SiteVitals adds the things it detects automatically, while your team can add manual notes for things only you know about. That gives everyone a shared record to look back at when a ranking drops, a page slows down or something simply starts behaving differently.

We previously called this Change Intelligence. That still describes the value behind the feature, but Events Timeline is the clearer name for what you actually use: your site's event history, with enough context to help you join the dots.

01

Monitoring events

Downtime, recoveries, score changes, security findings, integrity warnings and content changes are timestamped automatically.

02

Your own notes

Add deployments, content releases, campaigns, maintenance or anything else your team may need to remember later.

03

One shared history

Instead of checking six dashboards and trying to remember what happened first, the timeline puts the sequence in one place.

04

Useful context later

When something changes weeks later, you have a record to investigate rather than relying on memory or asking around.

See it in action

Explore a real SiteVitals events timeline.

This is an interactive timeline, not a screenshot. Open events, move through the history and see how automated detections and manual notes sit alongside each other.

Change Intelligence Timeline — How it works

Something changed.
Now you can prove it.

SiteVitals keeps a continuous, dated record of everything it detects regressions, recoveries, content shifts, security changes, so you always have a trail to follow. Your team can add to it too. Deployed something? Log it. Client made changes? Note it.

live events timeline

Where the timeline earns its keep

The conversations are easier when you have evidence.

The timeline is most useful when several people, tools and changes are involved - precisely the situations where memory becomes unreliable.

01

A ranking or traffic drop

Look back at the period before the drop and see page edits, heading changes, SEO regressions, performance shifts or other events in sequence.

02

A client changed something

Agencies get a shared record of what happened between check-ins, so the conversation starts with dates and evidence rather than guesswork.

03

A release had an unexpected side effect

Add the deployment as a manual event, then see what SiteVitals detected around it across performance, security, integrity and content.

04

Nobody remembers what happened

Weeks later, the answer is still there. That matters when a small change has a delayed consequence and the person who made it has moved on to something else.

The same history is useful to machines too

Give an AI assistant the context around the problem.

SiteVitals' API exposes recent events alongside current health and score history, so an AI assistant or internal tool can answer questions with context instead of looking at a single snapshot.

That makes questions like “what changed before performance dropped?” or “did anything happen around the time this SEO score fell?” much easier to investigate.

View API docs
GET /api/v1/sites/4/health
"recent_events": [
  {
    "type": "performance",
    "summary": "Performance score dropped",
    "occurred_at": "2026-10-03T14:42:00"
  },
  {
    "type": "manual_note",
    "summary": "Homepage deployment",
    "occurred_at": "2026-10-03T13:55:00"
  }
]

A shared history of your site, not another dashboard to remember.

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Things people ask us

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It is a timestamped history of important things SiteVitals detects across your monitored site, alongside manual notes your team adds for deployments, campaigns, maintenance and other events.
Yes. Change Intelligence is the idea behind the feature: using a shared event history to understand what changed around a problem. We now describe the feature itself more plainly as the events timeline.
Events can include downtime and recovery, SEO changes, security findings, performance shifts, integrity warnings and content changes. Your team can also add manual notes.
Yes. Everyone with appropriate access to the site can use the same timeline, so automated detections and team knowledge sit in one shared record.
Yes. Manual notes are useful for deployments, content releases, campaigns, maintenance windows and other changes that SiteVitals cannot know about automatically.
Yes. SiteVitals exposes recent site events and health context through the API, which can be used by dashboards, internal tools and AI assistants.