# Using Email Monitoring


Unlock Email Monitoring to get peace of mind with 24/7 real-time monitoring of published emails

## How Email Monitoring Works

When Email Monitoring is enabled on a published email, Litmus will periodically check them in production so that your recipients never experience an issue with your emails, even if links change or provider rules are updated.

![Email monitoring dashboard with 1 email enrolled with 4 broken links](https://docs.dyspatch.io/img/emails/email-monitoring-dashboard.png)

<div class="highlight tip">To add or preview an email's monitored status, you must have <a href="../../administration/dyspatch_roles/">Admin permissions</a></div>

## Enroll an Email for Email Monitoring

To add email monitoring to an email, locate the email in its workspace folder, select the " <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="3" height="11" viewBox="0 0 3 11"><title>3 dot</title><path fill="currentColor" fill-rule="evenodd" d="M1.344 8c.363 0 .677.133.944.4.267.267.4.581.4.944s-.133.677-.4.944c-.267.267-.581.4-.944.4s-.677-.133-.944-.4a1.291 1.291 0 0 1-.4-.944c0-.363.133-.677.4-.944.267-.267.581-.4.944-.4zm0-4c.363 0 .677.133.944.4.267.267.4.581.4.944s-.133.677-.4.944c-.267.267-.581.4-.944.4s-.677-.133-.944-.4a1.291 1.291 0 0 1-.4-.944c0-.363.133-.677.4-.944.267-.267.581-.4.944-.4zm0-1.312a1.29 1.29 0 0 1-.944-.4 1.291 1.291 0 0 1-.4-.944C0 .981.133.667.4.4.667.133.981 0 1.344 0s.677.133.944.4c.267.267.4.581.4.944s-.133.677-.4.944a1.29 1.29 0 0 1-.944.4z"></path></svg> " three dot menu, and **Enable Monitoring**.

![Arrow pointing to the enable email monitoring option from the workspace email 3-dot dropdown item list](https://docs.dyspatch.io/img/emails/email-monitoring-enable.png)

## Viewing Email Monitoring Impacts

The status of each email asset will be viewable from the <a href="https://app.dyspatch.io/guardian" target="blank">Email Monitoring dashboard</a>.

When Litmus' API renders the email and returns anything but a 200 ok status for links, images, or other assets, you will be alerted with what asset failed and what the error was. 

![Email monitoring page with both ok and failing links, showing icons for assets](https://docs.dyspatch.io/img/emails/email-monitoring-issues.png)

Hover the error from the list or on the rendered preview image to see details about the render failure.