# aclipp Monitoring

Use aclipp's built-in news monitoring to automatically find and import relevant media coverage


aclipp Monitoring is built-in, AI-powered news monitoring. No external subscription is required. Define keywords, and aclipp regularly searches the web for matching articles, then imports relevant results as clippings with full AI processing.

Go to the [**Monitoring**](app:~/monitoring) tab in your project to set it up.

## How it works

aclipp Monitoring creates an internal monitoring source for your project. Once it is active, new matching articles are imported automatically and processed like other clippings: metadata is extracted, the outlet is matched or created, media value is estimated where possible, and tags or metrics can be suggested.

## Configuration

### Keywords

Each search is a short text made of quoted terms and the operators OR, AND, NOT and NEAR, for example `"tibber" OR "rabot energy"`. You can add up to 10 searches, and an article is imported when it matches any of them. See [Writing monitoring searches](/help/monitoring-searches) for the syntax, examples and tips, or use **Configure with AI** in the editor to get a first set of searches.

### Domain filters

Control which websites are excluded:

- **Exclude domains:** Never import articles from these websites.

You can add up to 20 excluded domains.

### Country filter

Select up to 5 countries to focus the monitoring on articles from specific regions.

### Keyword filter

Add an optional text filter to refine which results get imported. Only articles matching the filter will be imported.

### Relevancy check

When enabled, AI evaluates each result for relevance before importing it. This helps reduce noise from loosely related articles.

### Default status

Choose the default status for clippings imported through monitoring: **Draft**, **In Review**, or **Active**.

## Related

- [Writing monitoring searches](/help/monitoring-searches)
- [Create Clippings](/help/clippings/creating-clippings)
- [Integrations](/help/integrations)