Your brand gets mentioned in forums, blogs, job posts, review sites, and pages you'd never find manually. Octolens scans the open web, filters the noise with AI, and delivers relevant mentions to Slack, email, webhooks, or your API. Not uptime checks or page-change alerts — mention monitoring.
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"We discovered that OpenAI was using Tally through Octolens. It wasn't tagged or announced anywhere, we just spotted it through a post."
Social platforms are only part of the picture. Your brand shows up in forums, blogs, job posts, docs, and review sites every week — and almost none of those pages will ever notify you. That means:
Google Alerts only surfaces a fraction of what Google indexes, arrives days after the fact, and sends everything unfiltered. Forums, niche communities, and freshly published pages rarely make it into your digest at all.
A job post listing your tool in the stack. A competitor's comparison page. A review on a directory you've never visited. Without web monitoring, discovery is random and incomplete — you find these months late, or never.
Track a keyword across the open web and you'll get scraper copies, SEO spam, and aggregator reposts by the hundreds. That's why AI filtering isn't a nice-to-have — it's the only way web monitoring stays usable.
Before anyone visits your pricing page, they've read forum threads, review sites, and comparison posts. If you don't know what those pages say, you're losing deals to conversations you never saw.
Enter your brand, competitors, and category terms. Octolens helps you tune each keyword so you catch mentions on pages you would never find manually.
Crawl and search discovery across forums, blogs, job posts, docs, review sites, and niche communities — not just the big platforms.
The Google Alerts alternative that actually catches things. Define the words and phrases you care about, and Octolens will notify you every time a new page mentions them — forums, blogs, job posts, docs, and sites you've never heard of.
Track your company name, product name, and common misspellings across the open web. Catch the blog listicle that ranked you #3, the forum thread recommending you, and the review nobody sent you.
Monitor what the web says about your competitors. Spot comparison articles, "alternative to X" posts, and unhappy users venting on forums — the pages where your next customers are deciding.
Track the problems your product solves. When a forum thread or blog post discusses a pain point you address, you know about it while the conversation is still alive.
Track specific features, integrations, or technical terms. Useful for developer tools whose users write tutorials, docs, and stack breakdowns all over the web.
Monitoring the whole web without filtering means scraper copies, SEO spam, and aggregator reposts by the hundreds. Octolens uses AI to score every matching page for relevance to your business, so you only get alerted on pages that actually matter. A spam site scraping your docs gets filtered out. A comparison article putting you head-to-head with a competitor gets flagged as high relevance.
You can configure your web keyword alerts to only notify you on high-relevance matches, or include medium-relevance pages for a broader view. Low-relevance noise is filtered out automatically — which is what keeps common-word brand names usable.
Get keyword alerts delivered to any Slack channel as mentions are found.
Receive daily or hourly email digests of new keyword matches.
Push alerts to any tool in your stack — CRMs, Notion, Linear, or custom apps.
Pull keyword alerts programmatically or pipe them into AI agent workflows.
Forum monitoring, blog monitoring, review tracking, and web mention alerts — built for teams that want web data in their stack, not another dashboard.
Track brand mentions in niche forums and communities beyond Reddit and Hacker News — the places where your most technical users compare tools and ask for recommendations.
Catch new blog posts, listicles, and comparison articles that mention your brand. Know when you're ranked, reviewed, or recommended — and when a competitor's post positions against you.
A job post listing your tool in the stack is an adoption signal. A review on a directory you've never visited shapes your deals. Octolens surfaces both.
Competitors comparing themselves to you, integrations documenting your API, landing pages naming your product — pages with no notification system, found anyway.
Every matching page is scored for relevance and sentiment. Scraper copies, SEO spam, and aggregator reposts are filtered out before they reach you.
Pull structured web mentions into your own workflows — one endpoint, JSON out, on every plan. Or connect your AI tools directly via our MCP server.
See what the web says about you — in 2 minutes
"Built on top of the Octolens API, I use Railway as a service to pipe all of the mentions to different channels. Then there's a cron job that does a daily digest for us."
"Wild AI-native onboarding experience. I literally entered zero input other than vercel.com to get my Octolens feed up and giving me mentions."
"A big part of our job is paying attention to what people are saying online - answering questions, correcting misunderstandings, and joining the conversation in real time."
"It's not about replying to everything. It's about showing up in the right conversations and doing it genuinely. Octolens helps us do that at scale."
"Developers tune out advertising, but they do talk online - and that's where our reputation is built."
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Need more mentions or keywords?
You can add extra mentions (from $0.01 per mention) and keywords (from $5/month) to any plan – with full cost control and flexibility.
Web monitoring can mean four different things: uptime monitoring (checking if your own website is online), page-change detection (watching a specific page for edits), dark web monitoring (scanning for leaked credentials), and mention monitoring. Octolens does mention monitoring: it continuously discovers new pages across the open web — forums, blogs, job posts, review sites, docs — that mention your brand, competitors, or keywords, scores them with AI for relevance, and delivers the ones that matter to Slack, email, webhooks, API, or MCP.
No. Uptime monitoring tools like UptimeRobot or Pingdom check whether your own website is online and loading fast. Octolens monitors what the rest of the internet says about you — new pages anywhere on the web that mention your brand, product, or competitors. If you're looking for uptime checks, you want a different category of tool.
No. Dark web monitoring tools scan hidden marketplaces and leak databases for stolen credentials and personal data. Octolens monitors the open, public web — the forums, blogs, review sites, and communities where real people discuss products and brands.
Page-change detection tools watch a specific page you already know about and alert you when it changes. Octolens solves the opposite problem: discovering pages you don't know exist. You define keywords, and Octolens finds new pages across the web that mention them — a forum thread from this morning, a comparison article published yesterday, a job post listing your tool.
Yes. Google Alerts is the tool most people start with for web monitoring, and it's the tool most people outgrow. Octolens covers more of the web (including forums and niche communities Google Alerts rarely surfaces), refreshes hourly instead of daily digests, adds AI relevance and sentiment scoring so you're not reading spam, and delivers to Slack, webhooks, API, and MCP instead of just email.
Three reasons. Coverage: Google Alerts only surfaces a small fraction of what Google indexes, and forums, niche communities, and freshly published pages rarely make the cut. Latency: alerts arrive in daily or weekly digests, days after the conversation happened. Filtering: there is none — every match is treated equally, so real mentions drown in scraper copies and irrelevant hits.
Yes. Forum monitoring is one of the main reasons teams use the web source: niche forums and communities are where technical buyers compare tools and ask for recommendations, and they almost never tag or notify brands. Octolens also has dedicated sources for Reddit and Hacker News with deeper platform-specific coverage.
Yes. Blog monitoring catches new posts, listicles, reviews, and comparison articles that mention your brand or competitors. That includes the posts that rank you against alternatives — the pages your prospects actually read before buying.
The web source covers the open web: forums, blogs, job posts, review sites, directories, docs, changelogs, landing pages, and niche communities. It works alongside Octolens's 13 dedicated platform sources — Reddit, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, YouTube, GitHub, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, dev.to, podcasts, newsletters, and news — which have deeper, platform-specific coverage.
Every matching page is scored for relevance to your business and for sentiment. Scraper copies, SEO spam, and aggregator reposts get low scores and are filtered out automatically. A genuine forum thread comparing you to a competitor gets flagged as high relevance. You choose whether to be alerted on high-relevance matches only or include medium-relevance pages for a broader view — which is what keeps common-word brand names usable.
It takes under 5 minutes. Sign up for a free trial, add the keywords you want to track (your brand name, competitor names, category terms, or pain points), and choose where you want alerts delivered — Slack, email, webhooks, or pull them via API. Octolens will continuously discover new pages mentioning your keywords and alert you as they're found.
Yes. Add competitor names as keywords and you'll see their new reviews, comparison articles, forum complaints, and feature announcements as they appear across the web. Many teams track competitors and their own brand side by side to measure share of voice.
Octolens continuously discovers new pages through crawling and search. Web mentions refresh on the same cadence as our other sources: hourly on the Pro plan and in real time on Scale.
Yes, you can export your web monitoring data as CSV. We also provide webhook, API, and MCP server integrations for connecting with your existing tools — available on every plan.
Octolens offers a free 7-day trial. After the trial, pricing starts at $159/month (billed annually, or $199/month billed monthly), which includes the web source plus all 13 platform sources, AI filtering, and API, webhook, and MCP access.
Please contact us at hi@octolens.com and we will be happy to help you.
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