How it works
- A client is monitored when its network is on and the client is on.
- Monitoring decides whether new incidents can open. Data collection never stops, so the history has no gaps when you turn something back on.
- When you turn a network or client off, its open incidents keep being followed until they are resolved. Their updates still reach the bell and webhooks, but no longer email.
- Each client belongs to a category, and each category has a default: Brazil is on, Global and Apps are off. A client you switch by hand keeps your choice when the default changes.
What you see
Networks
The summary shows how many networks are monitored and how many have a problem, and the time of the Last check. While networks are loading, it counts them instead: how many are ready, how many are loading and how many the connected Google account cannot see, with a bar of the networks ready and either about how much time is left or when the next networks start loading. Right after you connect Google Ad Manager, reconnect an account, add another Google account or save the network selection, a line at the top says what happened and how many networks Stealth is reading. Close it with the X. Check now asks for a new check outside the hourly schedule. While a check is in progress, the button reads Checking… and stays off. It starts within 5 minutes. A new request is refused while a check is in progress or if one was requested in the last 10 minutes. A requested check refreshes the data and can run the daily rules. The hourly rules run only in the regular hourly check. Each network shows its name and code (which opens it in Google Ad Manager), an on/off switch, how many of its clients are monitored and its stage:
When a network is off, none of its clients is monitored. When it is on again, each client returns to its own setting.
Each network also shows the state of its hourly refresh:
The progress and the refresh state update on their own, within about 30 seconds, without reloading the page.
Not monitored lists the networks the Google account can access that you left out of the selection. Stealth does not read them. Choose networks opens the selection, where you can add them. See Connect Google Ad Manager.
Defaults
A default applies to every client in the category, except those set by hand.
Clients
The list of clients, 25 per page, with search, filters (Category, Monitoring, Network) and the columns Client, Network, Category, Setting and Monitored. Setting says Category default, Set by hand (with who and when) or Network off. Select several clients to Monitor, Stop monitoring or Reset to default. Resetting removes the hand-set mark and applies the current default.Alerts
Organization Default sets what becomes an alert for everyone:
Members cannot turn off mandatory alerts. They only choose the channel.
Exceptions replace the default for one network, client, format or ad unit. Each exception either mutes alerts (Mute) or sets another Minimum severity, with a Duration of No expiry, 24 hours, 7 days or Until a date. When more than one exception matches, the most specific one wins: ad unit, then format, then client, then network.
See Alerts and notifications for how these rules combine with each person’s preferences.
The rules above apply to revenue drops. Below them, Health and Opportunities has one switch for each:
- Health alerts (on by default): critical problems by email right away, the rest in the morning summary at 9 AM. Light ones stay on the Health screen. A Mute exception on a network, client or ad unit also mutes its Health findings. The minimum severity and the format exceptions do not apply to Health. See Health.
- Opportunities alerts (off by default): on Mondays after the weekly calculation, only new items with high or medium confidence. Nothing is sent when there are none.
FAQ
Why are Global and app clients off by default?
Why are Global and app clients off by default?
So that the first alerts focus on the sites your team manages directly. Turn the category on in Defaults, or turn on single clients in Clients, if they matter to you.
Does turning a client off delete its data?
Does turning a client off delete its data?
No. Data collection continues. Only new incidents stop opening.
Should I mute or turn off monitoring?
Should I mute or turn off monitoring?
Mute when you want the incidents but not the alerts, for example during a planned change. Turn monitoring off when the client should not be followed at all.