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Fern docs monitoring

Draft. This outline will be expanded with verified, platform-specific detail.

How Fern sites typically break

  • Navigation declared in docs.yml; pages removed from navigation become orphans. TODO(verify): config file name
  • API reference pages generated from OpenAPI or Fern definitions move when operations are renamed.
  • Heading ids generated from heading text.

What Fern catches, and what it misses

  • Validation of the docs configuration on generate. TODO(verify): link checking
  • Misses external links, anchors from other sites, sitemap drift and orphans.

Setting up redirects on Fern

  • redirects entries in the docs configuration. TODO(verify): syntax

How PathIntact monitors a Fern site

  • Detection via fern- class names and asset hosts TODO(verify); static reading with rendering fallback.

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    Last updated 2026-09-16. Fern is a trademark of its owner; PathIntact is not affiliated.