Hi @dynamicfba, welcome to the community forum.
A macro can be used to login automatically before checking it for changes. Check out Macro: Record and Replay Automated Actions – Distill. The video tutorial in the doc should be a good intro to using macro to automate steps in Distill.
Check out the following thread for a related discussion: Using macro to login to a website
Customers in Flexi and higher plans can add their own proxies at https://monitor.distill.io/#/w/0/proxies/ and use them for the cloud monitors.
Hope this helps. Cheers!