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Shadow Monitor

by https://yurii-mandzii.github.io/shadow-monitor/ · yurii-mandzii.github.io · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Local-only UAT diagnostic recorder: rolling 10-min capture of DOM, network and storage. No external calls.

Users
16
−2 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
2
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#162K
#135K among extensions
Version
1.5.0
updated 29 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 months
0816Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 16 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 months
012Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 2 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Shadow Monitor

Shadow Monitor helps QA engineers and developers diagnose bugs during user-acceptance testing — without sending data to the cloud. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Settings and grant your UAT origin (e.g. uat.example.com). 2. Hard-reload that tab (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R) so capture scripts load from page start. 3. Capture runs automatically on every granted origin. Reproduce the bug as usual. 4. Open the popup and click Download to save a uat-report-*.json.gz bundle. 5. Open the included viewer and drop the file to replay DOM, inspect network, console, and storage. LOCAL-ONLY GUARANTEE • Zero network requests to developer servers or third parties • No analytics, telemetry, remote config, or CDN assets • Sanitization on ingest (sensitive headers stripped; secrets redacted in JSON/text) • Optional AES-GCM encryption for the on-disk buffer and for shared export files WHAT IS CAPTURED (on origins you grant) • DOM / interactions — rrweb replay snapshots (passwords, payment fields, and .uat-mask always masked) • Network — fetch, XMLHttpRequest, and sendBeacon (URLs, methods, status, headers, bodies where available) • Storage — localStorage and sessionStorage snapshots • Cookies — non-HttpOnly cookies visible to page scripts (on by default; can turn off) • Console — errors and uncaught exceptions by default (configurable) WHAT IS NOT CAPTURED • WebSockets • HttpOnly cookies • Response bodies for static assets (CSS/JS/images) — metadata only • Any site you have not explicitly granted FOR APP DEVELOPERS Tag sensitive UI with class="uat-mask" or data-uat-mask so it stays out of DOM replay when input recording is on. REQUIREMENTS Chrome 116+. Grant each UAT hostname in Settings before capture starts.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−2−11.1%00.00
30 days−2−11.1%00.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Shadow Monitor appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
grant#59−3

Version history

5 versions recorded
1.5.029 Jul 2026
1.3.027 Jul 2026
1.2.025 Jul 2026
1.1.023 Jul 2026
1.0.022 Jul 2026

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
22 Jul 2026
Size
337 KB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
yurii-mandzii.github.io
Support
yurii-mandzii.github.io
Extension ID
medbegkecifnhagdgfionmfmpcacheib

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 2
Permissions
storagedownloadsscriptingactiveTabalarms

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