Monitoring

What it does

Once you verify that you control a domain, we check it once a day. Each check loads every URL in your monitored set three times in a fresh browser session: once before any interaction with the consent banner, once after simulating a reject choice, and once after simulating an accept choice. For every check, we record which third-party network requests were observed, matched against a filter list and a version number.

A new observation is not alerted immediately. It moves from new to suspect to confirmed only after it reproduces in further consecutive daily runs; single, unreproduced observations are logged but never alerted. During the pilot, a human reviews and approves every alert before it is sent; nothing goes out automatically.

What it doesn't do

This is not legal advice, an audit or a compliance certification. It reports technical observations of network requests on the pages we checked, under the conditions we checked them, and nothing more. It does not guarantee that every tracker will be detected: results can depend on site configuration, visitor geography, browser/session state, timing, A/B tests and how a page was configured at check time. An alert never states that a consent-management platform caused what was observed, only that a request was observed on a page that uses it.

Sample alert

Sample — illustrative only, not a real alert or a real domain.

CookieTelemetry alert - example.com
URL: https://example.com/pricing
Phase: pre-choice
Category: advertising
Matched rule: EP-ADV-0231 (list version 2026.09.20)
Observed on: 2026-09-24
This was observed on a page using a consent-management platform. This is
a technical observation of network requests, not a legal or compliance
conclusion.
Reproduction: re-run the CookieTelemetry check for this URL in a fresh
browser session; the request was present in 2 consecutive runs before
being alerted.

Pricing

Pilot pricing, not yet available.

• $49/month: founding customer price, up to 5 domains, daily checks, email alerts (first customers only).
• $99/month: 1–3 domains, daily checks, email alerts.
• $199/month (agency): 15 domains, webhook, per-client digest.
• $299/month: 40 domains, EU and UK vantage points, CSV export.

Annual billing: two months free. These figures are a starting point, not yet market-tested, and may change before the service is generally available. The pilot is free and takes no payment: there is no checkout, and nothing is charged until a paid plan is offered and agreed in writing.

Request a pilot

We are running a limited, free, human-reviewed private pilot before this service takes payment. If you would like to verify a domain and join it, email us and tell us the domain and how many URLs you want checked.

Request a pilot: agency@cookietelemetry.com

Data handling

We store, per run: HAR metadata, the matched rule and list version, and an immutable run ID, not page bodies or cookie values. Verification (a DNS TXT record or a meta tag on the domain) is required before we run any check or send any alert for a domain, matching the scanner's ownership-verification approach described in our Scanner Privacy Policy. Checks run from a server in Germany in the automated headless Chromium browser described on our bot information page, and honour robots.txt and our do-not-scan list the same way the scanner does. Sub-processors: Hetzner Online GmbH (hosting, Germany) and Cloudflare (network delivery and security, United States, under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework backed by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses). We never tell anyone else which domains you monitor.

Learn more

See our Methodology for how we run and classify checks, and our Independence Statement for our relationship (or lack of one) with consent-management vendors.

Contact

Questions about Monitoring: agency@cookietelemetry.com.