AI answers change constantly: models are updated, web search results move and new articles are published. How often you need to look depends on your market and your budget. Flexible monitoring lets you decide, without changing the quality of each measurement.
Three frequencies
Daily monitoring is for fast-moving categories and for teams actively running optimization work who want quick feedback. Every three days balances freshness and cost and is the default for many plans. Weekly monitoring gives a reliable trend for stable markets at the lowest price. Each run asks every active prompt on every configured provider and stores the full answers.
For Brand plans, the frequency is part of the subscription price, so changing it shows the new price before you confirm, and paid changes are prorated. For Agency plans, the frequency is set per client project and the subscription price does not change; a less frequent schedule simply uses fewer monitoring credits, letting the same allowance cover more prompts or clients.
Predictable scheduling
Every project has a clear next run time, a last scheduled run and a last successful run, displayed in your own time zone. When you change the frequency, the next run is recalculated from the last scheduled run. Switching to a faster schedule can make an overdue project eligible at the scheduler's next pass, but Narrashift never re-runs all prompts on the spot and never starts duplicate or overlapping runs for the same project.
A run only counts as successful when answers were actually collected. If a run cannot complete — for example because a provider is unavailable or agency credits are used up — the status says so, and paused runs continue automatically when possible.
Credits for agencies
Agency plans include a monthly allowance of monitoring credits. One credit is one completed execution of one prompt on one AI provider. Credits are reserved when a run starts, consumed only for successful answers and released for failed or cancelled requests, so you never pay for answers you did not receive. When the allowance is used up, new runs pause, the account owner is notified and monitoring resumes in the next billing period.
The monitoring settings show credits used, reserved and remaining, the reset date, consumption per provider and per project, and an estimate of how many credits each project's schedule will use over thirty days.
History you can compare
Every run is kept. The overview compares the latest cycle with the one from a week earlier, the visibility chart shows the full timeline, and date filters let you compare any period. Historical results are never overwritten when you change questions or frequency, so long-term trends remain intact.
Choosing the right frequency
If you are about to publish important changes, temporarily switching to daily monitoring gives you faster feedback in the Impact tracker. Once the work settles, a slower schedule keeps the trend visible at a lower cost. Agencies often monitor key clients more frequently than long-tail projects, using the same credit allowance more efficiently.
Time zones and transparency
All timestamps are stored in UTC and displayed in the time zone you choose in your account settings, so the next run time, the last successful run and the audit dates always match your working day. The monitoring settings page shows, for each project, its frequency, active prompts, next run and last successful run, together with the platforms that are monitored.