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How Do You Detect Overnight Traffic Drops Caused by Indexing Issues?

Lost 30% traffic overnight after Google silently deindexed many product pages without any warning or manual action. I built a simple daily checker to monitor index status for URLs and quickly detect drops. It even helped identify competitor ranking issues.

submitted this link on June 4, 2026
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    That's brutal. Google's silence on index drops is maddening. Your tool sounds like a solid early warning system—do you just alert on deindexing, or do you also track ranking recovery trends after re-indexing?

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