BuildsByLuke SEO Flight Recorder – Noindex, Meta & Schema Change Alerts

Search Console tells you what Google's crawler eventually decided, on its own schedule — often days or weeks later — and it doesn't watch social tags or canonical values, doesn't run the moment an update finishes, and never names the plugin that caused it. This plugin tells you what your HTML said, within your chosen check window (or ~90 seconds after an update), with the likely cause attached. They complement each other; only one of them is on your side of the fence.

As many as you want, as often as hourly. Neither is limited, and neither depends on paying for anything.

No. Checks run in the background via WP-Cron, fetch your pages with a strict time budget per batch, and store compact snapshots. Nothing runs on your visitors' page loads, and nothing is added to your front end.

No, and that's deliberate. It is strictly read-only: it records, diffs, and alerts. You (or your SEO plugin) stay in charge of what your pages say. A recorder you can trust must never be a hand on the controls.

A snapshot you take deliberately, rather than on a schedule. Before running a batch of updates, click "Arm baseline" — every monitored page is captured as it is right now. Run your updates, then click "Compare against armed baseline" and anything that moved is written to the flight log. It is the same recorder, pointed at a moment you chose.

noindex appearing on a monitored page, the site being switched to "Discourage search engines", a canonical moving to a different domain or disappearing, a schema type vanishing, a monitored page starting to return errors or redirect off-site, robots.txt blocking all crawlers, a broken or invalid sitemap, and an emptied title. Warnings cover meaningful-but-possibly-intended changes (title/description edits, Open Graph changes, H1 changes, sitemap shrinkage). Changes you made yourself by editing the page are logged as informational.

It keeps a short log of site events — plugin/theme/core updates, activations, deactivations, theme switches, SEO-relevant setting changes, and edits to monitored pages. When a check finds a difference, the events since the previous clean check are attached to the log entry. It is honest about uncertainty: entries say "site events immediately before this change", and when nothing happened in the window, it says so.

Yes — with all of them, and with none of them. It monitors the rendered output of your pages regardless of what generates it. It is not an SEO plugin and does not compete with yours; it verifies that whatever your SEO stack promised is actually what your pages serve.

Everything the plugin created: its three tables (pages, snapshots, changes), its options, transients, and scheduled tasks. Deactivating (without uninstalling) keeps your flight log.