changedetection.io is an open-source website change detection and monitoring tool that tracks web pages and alerts you when their content changes. This preconfigured AMI deploys a ready-to-use changedetection.io instance on AWS in minutes, giving teams a self-hosted Visualping alternative for price tracking, restock alerts, competitor monitoring, and content change notifications with unlimited watches and full data ownership.
changedetection.io is an open-source website change detection and monitoring tool that watches web pages for you and sends an alert the moment their content changes. This preconfigured changedetection.io AMI is built for developers, e-commerce teams, researchers, compliance teams, and anyone who needs to track price drops, restocks, product updates, job postings, policy changes, or competitor websites, and it runs on your own AWS infrastructure with no per-watch limits.
Instant Deployment: Launch a fully configured changedetection.io instance in minutes with a ready-to-use AMI, Docker-based runtime, and Nginx reverse proxy, with no manual installation required.
Website Change Detection: Monitor any number of web pages on a schedule and see exactly what changed with visual side-by-side and inline text diffs for every snapshot.
Targeted Monitoring: Use CSS selectors, XPath, and JSONPath filters to watch only the part of a page that matters, and ignore noisy text such as timestamps, ads, or counters.
Price and Restock Tracking: Track product prices and back-in-stock status, and get alerted when a price drops below a threshold or an item becomes available again.
Flexible Notifications: Send change alerts through email, popular chat platforms, and custom webhooks, with customizable notification templates for each watch.
Organized Watch Management: Group watches with tags, set recheck intervals per watch or per group, and import or export watch lists to scale monitoring across many sites.
Secure by Default: The dashboard is password protected on first boot and served through Nginx with automatic Let's Encrypt SSL when your domain is hosted on Route 53.
Self-Hosted Data Ownership: Keep every watch, snapshot, and change history on your own instance with no third-party service storing your monitoring data.
Version: 0.60.6
Operating System: Ubuntu 26.04
changedetection.io gives startups, online retailers, analysts, and enterprises a reliable self-hosted website change monitoring platform with unlimited watches and full control over their data. Follow the step by step installation guide to get started: https://meetrix.io/blogs/changedetection-developer-guide/
Highlights
Instant Deployment: Launch a fully configured changedetection.io instance in minutes with a ready-to-use AMI, Nginx reverse proxy, password-protected dashboard, and automated SSL setup.
Precise Change Detection: Monitor unlimited web pages with CSS, XPath, and JSONPath filters, visual text diffs, and price or restock tracking to catch only the changes that matter.
Self-Hosted Control: Keep all watches, snapshots, and change history on your own instance and receive alerts through email, chat platforms, and webhooks without third-party limits.
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changedetection.io AMI - Website Change Detection & Monitoring
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You pay by the hour for the EC2 instance that runs this software. Pricing is not tiered by features. Instead, you pick one of many instance types, and the hourly rate reflects that machine's size and compute family. Options span burstable t2 and t3/t3a types, general-purpose m4 through m7 families, compute-optimized c5 and c6a types, and memory-optimized r5 and r6 types. Within each family, larger sizes carry higher hourly rates. Choose a smaller instance for a few text-based watches, or a larger one to monitor many pages frequently.
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What does one hour of billing pay for with this product?
You pay for one running EC2 instance of the type you chose, billed per hour. The software runs inside that single machine. Sizes range from small burstable instances to memory- and compute-optimized ones. Choose a small type for a few text-based watches, a larger type to monitor many pages frequently.
Am I charged while the instance is stopped, and do checks still run?
Hourly software charges accrue only while the instance runs. When you stop it, pages are not checked and hourly billing pauses. Checks resume when you start it again. Note that stored disk data may still incur separate AWS storage fees while the instance is stopped.
How do I move to a larger instance type as my watch list grows?
You are not locked to one size. To scale up, back up your watch list and data, remove the current deployment, then relaunch on a larger instance type. Your hourly rate then reflects the new machine. A long watch list with frequent checks needs more storage and compute.
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changedetection.io AMI - Website Change Detection & Monitoring
changedetection.io is an open-source website change detection and monitoring tool that watches web pages for you and sends an alert the moment their content changes. This preconfigured changedetection.io AMI is built for developers, e-commerce teams, researchers, compliance teams, and anyone who needs to track price drops, restocks, product updates, job postings, policy changes, or competitor websites, and it runs on your own AWS infrastructure with no per-watch limits.
Instant Deployment: Launch a fully configured changedetection.io instance in minutes with a ready-to-use AMI, Docker-based runtime, and Nginx reverse proxy, with no manual installation required.
Website Change Detection: Monitor any number of web pages on a schedule and see exactly what changed with visual side-by-side and inline text diffs for every snapshot.
Targeted Monitoring: Use CSS selectors, XPath, and JSONPath filters to watch only the part of a page that matters, and ignore noisy text such as timestamps, ads, or counters.
Price and Restock Tracking: Track product prices and back-in-stock status, and get alerted when a price drops below a threshold or an item becomes available again.
Flexible Notifications: Send change alerts through email, popular chat platforms, and custom webhooks, with customizable notification templates for each watch.
Organized Watch Management: Group watches with tags, set recheck intervals per watch or per group, and import or export watch lists to scale monitoring across many sites.
Secure by Default: The dashboard is password protected on first boot and served through Nginx with automatic Let's Encrypt SSL when your domain is hosted on Route 53.
Self-Hosted Data Ownership: Keep every watch, snapshot, and change history on your own instance with no third-party service storing your monitoring data.
Version: 0.60.6
Operating System: Ubuntu 26.04
changedetection.io gives startups, online retailers, analysts, and enterprises a reliable self-hosted website change monitoring platform with unlimited watches and full control over their data. Follow the step by step installation guide to get started: https://meetrix.io/blogs/changedetection-developer-guide/
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IAM Role is set up and configured with the necessary permissions to assume the role for the changedetection.io service. The IAM Policy is created and responsible for access Route53 and create Letsencrypt SSL certificates and backing up data to the S3 bucket.
Access the application via a browser at http://<your domain name> or http://<Public IPv4 address>.
Product will try to create SSL certificate when its deploying, if domain hosted on route53. If the automatic SSL creation unsuccessful then you have to point domain name into server ip, ssh into server and run /root/certificate_generate_standalone.sh. Admin email using for SSL generation.
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