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From verified domain to first verified fix
Use this quickstart to understand the public product workflow and the boundaries around crawling, quota and evidence.
Quickstart
The first monitoring loop
Each step links to the customer-facing concept it introduces. Detailed operational guidance belongs in the authenticated dashboard and product docs.
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Create Workspace
Start with a Workspace that owns your projects, members, permissions and billing.
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Create Project
Add a Project for the verified public domain you are authorized to monitor.
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Verify domain
Complete domain verification before CrawlDrift can schedule crawling.
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Configure crawl
Choose Project scope, schedule, host policy and critical URL priorities.
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Run first crawl
Start a FULL crawl and review planned, running, completed and failed work.
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Understand progress
Use attempt timing, status, quota and coverage context instead of a misleading percentage.
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Open Incident
Review grouped Incidents with scope, severity, affected URLs and Timeline.
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Review Evidence
Inspect immutable snapshots and field-level before-and-after changes.
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Verify fix
Request a targeted VERIFICATION crawl for affected URLs without interrupting a FULL crawl.
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Configure notifications
Set up email subscriptions, severity thresholds, immediate alerts and digests.
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Understand quota
Review monitored URL limits, crawl-page allowance, reserved work and quota-excluded URLs.
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Crawl boundary
CrawlDrift monitors server-delivered HTML on public, verified domains. Browser rendering is not included in the current release.
Quota boundary
When allowance is exhausted, reserved work completes safely, new crawls pause and quota-excluded URLs remain visible.
Evidence boundary
Health trends use finalized eligible CrawlRuns. Partial crawls are not presented as complete Project Health.
Deployment docs
Connect release context to your crawls
Create a Project-scoped Deployment key, report a test deployment, configure rollout delay and enable a linked crawl.
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