Know the moment a Google Ads
campaign goes off-track.
Go Insights monitors spend, CPA, conversions, and campaign performance across your Google Ads account, and alerts you the moment something changes.
What we monitor
Every metric that affects your ad spend and performance, tracked around the clock.
What we catch
Real examples of issues Go Insights has surfaced on Google Ads accounts:
- CPA doubling overnight on a high-spend campaign
- A campaign quietly overspending its daily budget by 40%
- Conversion rate dropping after a landing page change
- Click-through rate tanking on a previously strong ad group
Why monitoring Google Ads matters
Google Ads campaigns can change performance dramatically in a matter of hours. A competitor enters an auction, a landing page goes down, a conversion tag breaks, or Google's automated bidding makes an aggressive adjustment, and suddenly your cost per acquisition is twice what it was yesterday. The problem is that most teams don't check campaigns closely enough to catch these shifts in real time.
Budget overspend is one of the most common and costly issues. Google Ads can spend up to twice your daily budget on any given day (capped at your monthly limit), which means a sudden spike in click volume can burn through budget faster than expected. If you're managing multiple campaigns or accounts, a single misconfigured budget can quietly drain thousands before anyone notices in a weekly review.
Conversion tracking failures are equally dangerous and harder to spot. If a Google Tag Manager update breaks your conversion tag, your campaigns keep spending, but Google's bidding algorithms lose the signal they need to optimise effectively. CPA rises, ROAS drops, and it can take days before anyone connects the performance decline to a tracking issue rather than a market shift.
For agencies managing client accounts, the stakes are compounded. A broken campaign in one of twenty accounts might not surface until the client asks why results dropped, and by then, the budget is already spent. The agency's credibility takes the hit, even if the root cause was a client-side change or a platform issue.
Automated monitoring addresses this by watching every campaign metric continuously. Go Insights tracks spend, CPA, conversions, CTR, and impression share across all your Google Ads accounts, and alerts you in Slack or email the moment any metric moves outside its expected range. You set the sensitivity, choose which metrics matter most, and get context-rich alerts that tell you what changed and by how much, so you can act before the budget is wasted.
Go Insights vs. monitoring Google Ads manually
Google Ads has built-in automated rules and custom alerts, but they work on static thresholds within a single account. You set a fixed number (e.g. "alert me if CPA exceeds £20") and the rule triggers when that boundary is crossed. This approach misses context, a CPA of £20 might be normal on a Monday but alarming on a Thursday, depending on your historical patterns.
Go Insights uses AI-powered anomaly detection that learns each metric's normal behaviour over time, including day-of-week and seasonal patterns. Alerts are based on deviations from your actual baselines, not arbitrary numbers. For agencies managing multiple Google Ads accounts, Go Insights provides a unified monitoring layer across every account, rather than configuring and maintaining separate alert rules inside each Google Ads account individually.
How it works
Connect
Sign in to Go Insights and link your Google Ads account with OAuth. Takes about 60 seconds.
We learn your patterns
Go Insights analyses your historical data to understand what's normal for each metric, so alerts are based on your real patterns, not arbitrary thresholds.
Get alerted instantly
When something shifts, you get a notification in Slack or email, with context on what changed, how much, and why it might matter.
Frequently asked questions
How does Go Insights monitor Google Ads?
What Google Ads metrics can Go Insights monitor?
How is this different from Google Ads' built-in alerts?
Can I monitor multiple Google Ads accounts?
Does Go Insights make changes to my Google Ads campaigns?
Do I need a credit card to sign up?
Last updated: May 2026