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How Inventory Monitoring Works

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Inventory monitoring means continuously checking product pages or stock endpoints to detect changes the moment they happen. The hard part isn't reading stock — it's polling thousands of items frequently without getting blocked.

How monitors poll

A monitor repeatedly requests product data and compares it to the last known state, firing an event when something changes.

  • Poll product pages or stock APIs on a loop
  • Diff against the previous snapshot
  • Emit events on availability changes

Staying unblocked at scale

Watching large catalogs means a lot of requests. Rotating residential IPs distribute that traffic so each address stays under the radar.

  • Spread requests across many IPs
  • Monitor thousands of SKUs in parallel
  • Throttle and back off on errors

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