Staging and testing environments

Conductor Website Monitoring is a great solution for monitoring your staging and testing environments, allowing you to do comparisons with the production environment before green lighting a release or migration.

Staging and testing environments are usually protected from all outside visitors as well as search engines.

If you’re wondering why you should be protecting your staging environment or you want to learn about different protection methods, be sure to read our Academy article (opens in a new tab) on this topic.

Ensuring Conductor Website Monitoring’s access to the staging environment

There are several ways in which you can give Conductor Website Monitoring access to your staging environment based on what protection method you are using.

HTTP Auth

HTTP Auth is the best way to protect your staging environment and you can read more about it here (opens in a new tab).

Conductor Website Monitoring allows you to set up HTTP Auth directly in the app, which means that you can easily enable us to monitor your staging environment.

Setting up HTTP Auth in Conductor Website Monitoring

To set up HTTP Auth for a website in Conductor Website Monitoring, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Monitoring tab of the Website settings
2. In the top-right corner of the Advanced monitoring section click Edit and then click configure next to the Auth setting.
3. In the window that appears, set the Username and Password that Conductor Website Monitoring will use to access the website.
4. Click Save.

Other ways to whitelist Conductor Website Monitoring

You can also give Conductor Website Monitoring access to your staging environment based on a unique identifier of our crawler.

You can whitelist Conductor Website Monitoring based on:

• Monitoring IP addresses
• User-agent string
• Custom HTTP header

Need help?

If you’re having trouble ensuring Conductor Website Monitoring’s access to your staging environment, don’t hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to help you set it up.