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Security at SiteGauge

A plain summary of the controls that protect your account and the pages you monitor. Everything listed here is in the product today.

Last reviewed 15 September 2026

Crawling that only reaches the public web

Every page SiteGauge fetches, for a monitor or a free tool, goes through a server-side request guard. Private, loopback, link-local and cloud-metadata addresses are refused, the address is checked again at connect time so a DNS answer cannot switch to an internal host, and every redirect hop is re-checked before it is followed.

Encryption

  • All traffic to the website, dashboard and API is served over TLS.
  • Secrets we have to reuse (login sessions for monitoring gated pages, signing secrets and bot tokens for alert channels, and your own third-party API keys) are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.
  • SiteGauge API keys are stored as one-way hashes, so a key cannot be read back, only replaced.

Signed change evidence

On Business and Enterprise, a change can be exported as an evidence bundle: the captured files, a manifest of their SHA-256 hashes and a signature over that manifest. Bundles signed with Ed25519 include the public key, so anyone can check them on the verification page without trusting us. A trusted timestamp is attached when the timestamp authority is reachable.

Access control

  • Owner, admin, member and viewer roles, with viewers limited to read-only access.
  • An audit log of account actions.
  • Sign-in is handled by our authentication provider, Clerk.
  • SSO / SAML is available on request for annual enterprise agreements. It is not self-serve.

Data retention and deletion

Change history and snapshots are kept for your plan's retention window and pruned automatically after it. When you delete a workspace, its data, including stored snapshots and screenshots, is permanently erased after a 30-day grace period. The providers that process data for us are listed in our privacy policy.

Certifications

SiteGauge does not currently hold a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certification. We are happy to answer a security questionnaire and describe the controls above in more detail; get in touch.

Reporting a vulnerability

If you believe you have found a security issue, email support@sitegauge.com with the details and steps to reproduce. Please give us a reasonable chance to fix it before sharing it publicly.