# Get told when a competitor reports an outage

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Canonical: https://revnu.com/watches/competitor-outage

**Get told when a competitor reports an outage.** Revnu checks a competitor's public status page every 5 minutes and tells you when they report an incident.

_Watch · Competitors_

## What it does

During an outage, a competitor's customers are reading about alternatives. Revnu checks the public status page every 5 minutes and tells you when a new incident is posted, with what's affected, so you can decide whether and how to respond.

**Trips when:** A new incident is posted on the competitor's public status page

**Checks:** Every 5 minutes

## What Revnu does when it trips

1. Reads the competitor's public status page.
2. Notes any open incidents.
3. Trips when a new incident appears.
4. Tells you what's affected and when it started.

## What you get

**Cloudflare reported an incident**

- Status page: cloudflarestatus.com
- Incident posted 18 November 2025, global network, widespread errors

| What changed | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Status | All systems operational | Investigating: widespread errors |

_Cloudflare's 18 November 2025 incident, shown to give the format of an alert._

## Send this to Revnu

> Watch [competitor]'s public status page every 5 minutes and tell me when they report an incident.

[Try this in Revnu](https://revnu.com/sign-up?prompt=Watch+%5Bcompetitor%5D%27s+public+status+page+every+5+minutes+and+tell+me+when+they+report+an+incident.&source=watches%2Fcompetitor-outage)

## Who it's for

- [Founders](https://revnu.com/docs/role-founder)
- [Heads of sales](https://revnu.com/docs/role-head-of-sales)
- [First growth hires](https://revnu.com/docs/role-first-growth-hire)

## Related

- [Get told when a competitor ships something new](https://revnu.com/watches/competitor-changelog)
- [Get told when your website goes down](https://revnu.com/watches/site-goes-down)
- [Get told when a competitor changes its pricing](https://revnu.com/watches/competitor-pricing-page)
- [Get told when a competitor starts hiring sales in a new country](https://revnu.com/watches/competitor-new-market)

## Read next

- [How watches work](https://revnu.com/docs/watches)
- [Approvals](https://revnu.com/docs/approvals)

## FAQ

### Should I email their customers during an outage?

Carefully. Revnu tells you first and drafts nothing unless you ask, so you choose the tone.

### Do I have to set anything up?

No. Ask in chat in your own words. Revnu writes the check, runs it once to make sure it works, and tells you what it's watching and how often.

### How often does a watch check?

Anywhere from every 5 minutes to once a week. Revnu picks a sensible interval, such as daily for a page that rarely changes, and you can change it any time.

### Will it message me when nothing happens?

No. A quiet watch messages no one. It trips once when something changes and won't fire again until things are back to normal.

### Can a watch read pages behind a login?

No. Watches read public pages and your own Revnu data: sends, replies, booked calls, ad spend, website tracking, Search Console and your leads.

### What does it cost?

Plans start at $99 a month, and Revnu starts on what you typed as soon as you sign up. Cancel any time in Settings.

### Does anything run before I sign up?

No. Nothing is checked or generated on this page. Revnu does the work inside your account, where it can read your website, keep what it finds and carry on from there.

### Where do I learn how Revnu works?

The docs at revnu.com/docs/get-started walk through your first day, and revnu.com/docs/what-revnu-can-do lists everything it can do.

Last updated: 2026-11-08

## Machine-readable resources

- LLM index: https://revnu.com/llms.txt
- Full LLM context: https://revnu.com/llms-full.txt