XML feed monitoring

Your XML feed is the backbone of your e-commerce business β€” it pushes products to Google Merchant, price comparison engines and affiliate platforms. A broken feed means missing products, wasted PPC budgets and lost revenue. StrixMonitor watches your feed automatically.

πŸ”
StrixMonitor's most powerful feature. While other tools only check if the feed URL is reachable, StrixMonitor actually downloads, parses and analyses the content β€” catching errors you wouldn't discover until the shopping engine stops importing your products.
What StrixMonitor checks in your feed
βœ… XML structure validation

Checks for well-formed XML, required elements and attributes per feed schema. Missing or duplicate tags cause the feed to be rejected by the shopping engine.

πŸ’° Zero and negative prices

Detects products priced at $0 or negative values. Common when ERP export bugs occur or when a discount exceeds the original price. Shopping engines disqualify such products immediately.

πŸ” Duplicate items

Finds products sharing the same id or ITEM_ID. Duplicates created by export bugs cause shopping engines to display the wrong price or product variant.

πŸ“¦ Missing required fields

Checks for empty required fields β€” product title, URL, image, price, availability. Each shopping engine has its own requirements; an empty field means the item is dropped.

πŸ“‰ Sudden product count drop

Alerts when the number of items drops significantly compared to the previous run. If your feed returns 50 products instead of 5,000, an export failure has likely occurred.

🌐 Feed availability

Checks HTTP availability of the feed URL, Content-Type headers and generation time. An unavailable or too slow feed will be dropped by the shopping engine entirely.

Supported feed formats
Google Merchant (RSS 2.0) Heureka XML Custom XML schema
How it works
  1. Add your XML feed URL to StrixMonitor
  2. Set a check interval (we recommend every 60 minutes)
  3. StrixMonitor downloads, parses and runs the full check suite
  4. On error, you receive an email with a precise description and line number
  5. Check history shows trends β€” product count and errors over time
Sample alert
❌ ERROR β€” XML feed: Google Merchant
Found 12 products with price $0.00
Found 3 duplicate IDs: 10234, 10891, 11002
Total products: 4,821 (previous check: 4,819)
2026-04-08 14:35 UTC