E-commerce Price Monitoring
Complete example showing how to monitor e-commerce products for price changes and stock availability.Use case
Track competitor prices, product availability, and detect when products go on sale.What you’ll build
- Strategy for extracting product data
- Hourly monitoring schedule
- Price drop alerts
- Inventory tracking
Prerequisites
- Meter API key
- TODO: Your alerting system (email, Slack, etc.)
- TODO: Your target e-commerce site
Step 1: Generate strategy
TODO: Replace with your actual e-commerce site and dataStep 2: Set up monitoring
Step 3: Process price changes
TODO: Implement your price tracking logicStep 4: Track inventory
TODO: Implement stock trackingComplete example
TODO: Full working implementationDeployment
Option 1: Run as service
TODO: Set up as systemd service or similarOption 2: Cron job
TODO: Configure cronOption 3: Cloud function
TODO: Deploy to AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc.Next steps
- Add database for price history tracking
- Implement email/Slack alerts
- Build price trends visualization
- Add multi-page monitoring
See also
- Schedules Concept - Understanding monitoring
- Pull-Based Monitoring - Polling patterns
- Webhooks Guide - Real-time alerts