Monitor a changing world

Continuously watch areas for physical features and events, then notify your systems when meaningful change occurs.

Continuous physical-world awareness

Monitor turns an area and a set of signals into a durable watch. It can track human events such as crime, permits, construction, and closures alongside natural hazards such as wildfires, earthquakes, flooding, and severe weather.

Create a monitor

POST /monitor

curl "$OUTERVIEW_API_URL/monitor" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OUTERVIEW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Northwest wildfire watch",
    "area": {
      "type": "Polygon",
      "coordinates": [[[...]]]
    },
    "signals": ["wildfire", "air_quality"],
    "webhook_url": "https://example.com/outerview-events"
  }'

areageometry

The point, corridor, boundary, or polygon to watch.

signalsstring[]

The physical features, events, or hazards that matter.

webhook_urlurl

The destination for signed change notifications.

Monitor events

Events describe what changed, where it changed, when it was detected, supporting evidence, and a severity or confidence level.

Design consumers to be idempotent. The same monitor event can be delivered more than once when a webhook is retried.