Monitoring didn't work

Hello,

I need a solution to get automatic notification from a website that is publishing certain market pricings every month. I did set up a monitoring for this to test it and this month it didn’t work and I can’t test it again until next month unfortunately. I post the link to the website below, I want to monitor the monthly values in the table at the top, yesterday the values for April were released. I did get an error message before with the information that the fields are empty, however this is normal and I need a notification once numbers are in those fields. Is it not possible to monitor empty fields and get notified once something is entered?

Netztransparenz > Erneuerbare Energien und Umlagen > EEG > Transparenzanforderungen > Marktprämie > Marktwertübersicht

@pricetracker88 Yes, this is possible.

In your case, the best approach is to select both:

  • the empty value field for the month you want to monitor (for example, April), and

  • the corresponding month label/cell itself as a stable reference element.

When the field is empty, Distill may show SELECTION_EMPTY errors, which is expected in this scenario. Once the website publishes the monthly values and the empty field gets populated, Distill will detect the change and send you a notification.

So the important part is:

  • keep monitoring the currently empty cells,

  • and include a stable element (like the month name) in the selection