Confluence provides several ways by which you can watch for changes to single pages, entire spaces, and all spaces on the site. When you watch a page or space, Confluence sends you an email whenever that content changes.

You can also track a particular user's activity on the Confluence site.

(info) You can only track updates to content that you have permission to see.

Manually Watching Content

You can 'watch' a page or a space that you have permission to view. Confluence will then send you a notification by email whenever anyone adds or updates content on, or adds a comment to, that page or space.

  • There is no daily digest for these notifications. You will receive an email notification every time someone makes a change.
  • You can choose the pages and/or spaces that you want to watch. You can 'unwatch' a page or a space at any time.

To set up a watch on a specific page or space, see:

Configuring Watches

All email notification settings can be changed from one location. See Editing User Settings.

Manage Watchers

Space administrators are able to manage watchers of pages and spaces.

Using labels and RSS feeds as an alternative to watches

You can use the RSS feed builder to track updates to labelled pages and comments on those pages. Here is an idea for customising your RSS feed by using your own personal label(s). This is useful if you want to track updates to specific pages or blog posts, and you do not want to deal with emails. You can use this method as an alternative to watching pages.
  • Build an RSS feed that returns pages, blog posts and comments labelled with a personal label, such as 'my:feed'.
  • Each time you want to 'watch' a page, just label it with 'my:feed'.
  • All updates and comments will automatically come through your RSS feed.

Confluence RSS Feeds

You can watch for content changes in Confluence using RSS feeds.

Related Plugins

  • The Contributors plugin allows you to list the users, watchers, labels and etc in a page.
  • The Autowatch Plugin allows you to automatically watch a page or blog post that you have created or edited. For example, if you comment on a page, you will be set to watch that page for further updates.

Plugins should be used with care. Please refer to the note on supported plugins.

Related Topics

Page History and Page Comparison Views
Viewing Space Activity

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