--- title: "World Monitor" description: "Live global intelligence, API access, authentication, and agent capabilities." canonical: "https://www.worldmonitor.app/" --- Free global intelligence dashboard · live now # By the time it's news, you already knew. Headlines are the lag. World Monitor streams the world's raw signals — ships, jets, sirens, cables, markets — onto one live map, with AI that flags when they converge into something that matters. As of 4 September 2026 [Launch the dashboard](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=hero)[See how people use it ↓](#moments) Free · No signup · Loads in seconds 57 Map layer types 461 News & OSINT feeds [748 Attributed providers](/sources/?utm_source=welcome-hero) 5 Independent alert origins [As featured in WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/world-monitor-elie-habib/)[2M+ users](https://siliconcanals.com/sc-n-anghami-ceos-side-project-world-monitor-now-has-2-million-users-tracking-conflicts-in-real-time/) | [Open source · AGPL-3.0](https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor) | [Build on it: REST API · MCP · npm · PyPI · Go · RubyGems](#agents) ## What is World Monitor? World Monitor is a free, open-source dashboard that streams geopolitics, markets, shipping, aviation, infrastructure, and cyber signals onto one live world map. It correlates separate feeds into a single operating picture and flags convergence before headlines, with every figure sourced and every method documented. [WorldMonitor is not an open-source Palantir](/blog/posts/worldmonitor-is-not-palantir/) [worldmonitor.app — global operations Captured from the live map — click to open it](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=plate) Start with the question ## What are you trying to find out? Choose the evidence trail that matches the job in front of you. Each route opens a source-backed view, not an empty dashboard. [01 ### Verify a breaking event Check current crisis trackers, dated metrics, and cited context before trusting a breaking claim. Open evidence](/crises/?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=task-verify)[02 ### Check a chokepoint Inspect disruption status, vessel flows, and risk across critical maritime passages. Open evidence](/chokepoints/?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=task-chokepoint)[03 ### Explain a country-risk move Trace the political, security, economic, and resilience signals behind a country's change. Open evidence](/countries/?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=task-country-risk) Live right now ## What live data is this page showing right now? Four of the hundred-plus signals World Monitor watches around the clock. Top signals Published pulse Sep 4, 2026 - [Outside forces fuel Sudan war, new report finds](https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/09/1168270) UN News - [Iran targets US bases as Israel warns sanctions could drive Tehran to ‘desperate steps’](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/iran-targets-us-bases-as-israel-warns-sanctions-could-drive-tehran-to-desperate-steps) Guardian ME - [Former RFI journalist disappears in Niger after attempted coup](https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20260903-former-rfi-journalist-disappears-in-niger-after-attempted-coup) RFI Afrique - [Trump already tried to hurt Iran with sanctions once - and it didn't work](https://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/nx-s1-5945582/trump-already-tried-to-hurt-iran-with-sanctions-once-and-it-didnt-work) NPR News Instability index Published pulse Sep 4, 2026 - 🇺🇦 UA 99 ▲ - 🇷🇺 RU 80 ▲ - 🇲🇽 MX 70 ─ - 🇵🇰 PK 70 ─ - 🇲🇲 MM 69 ▲ 12 fused signals per country Maritime chokepoints Published pulse Sep 4, 2026 7 of 13 disrupted - Kerch Strait 70 - Strait of Hormuz 70 - Bab el-Mandeb 40 - Suez Canal 35 - Bosporus Strait 30 Markets Published pulse Sep 4, 2026 Up 7 / 11 Best ETH +4.7% Weakest WTI -0.7% - S&P 500 equity 7,748 +1.06% - Nasdaq equity 26,584 +1.40% - Bitcoin crypto 80,846 +3.85% - Ethereum crypto 2,515 +4.71% - WTI crude energy 90.70 -0.66% - Brent energy 95.07 -0.47% - Gold metal 4,527 -0.28% - Copper metal 6.68 +0.26% - Nat gas energy 2.93 +0.51% - EUR/USD fx 1.16 -0.05% - USD/JPY fx 156.32 +0.30% Enable JavaScript to refresh — the published pulse above remains available without it. Shipping log ## What's new in WorldMonitor New features from the last 30 days — fixes and plumbing not included. - ▸ Physical premium divergence index — SGE vs COMEX, with history PRO - ▸ Commodity supply-vulnerability rankings — chokepoint dependency fan-out PRO - ▸ Mineral production concentration & the defense industrial base PRO - ▸ Five-factor resilience scorecards with indicator-level scores PRO - ▸ Custom Telegram channel watchlists - ▸ Passkey sign-in - ▸ AI agents can drive the dashboard — panels, tabs, map layers & missions - ▸ Richer country resilience pages Correlation engine ## How does World Monitor correlate signals? You can find the feeds in a hundred places. The edge is one surface where geopolitics, shipping, commodities, macro, markets, weather, infrastructure, cyber, news and country risk can explain each other. Geopolitics + markets + macro ### The market move has a map. Signals fused RISK Country risk, sanctions, hotspot escalation, official alerts and news velocity show where geopolitical pressure is rising. FLOW Ships, chokepoints, flights, cables and infrastructure proximity show whether that pressure can hit supply, trade or capital routes. MACRO Rates, FX, equities, crypto, energy and safe-haven assets show which market regime is repricing. PRICE Correlation The edge is seeing geopolitical pressure, transmission path and price action together before it becomes a consensus note. Country risk Trade flows Rates + FX Equities + crypto [Open the market lens →](https://finance.worldmonitor.app/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=m1) Commodities + chokepoints + weather ### Commodity moves start in the physical world. Signals fused AIS AIS, ports, pipelines, LNG, refineries, waterways and chokepoints show when supply is slowing, rerouting or concentrating. WEATHER Weather, fires, earthquakes, outages and conflict layers show the physical events that can hit production or transport. SUPPLY Oil, gas, gold, grains, miners, shipping names and commodity-linked currencies show how the shock prices through. SPREAD Correlation Commodity intelligence only works when physical flow, disruption signal and market spread are visible together. AIS + ports Weather + fires Energy assets Oil/gold/grains [Open the commodity lens →](https://commodity.worldmonitor.app/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=m2) AI infrastructure + energy + climate ### The AI boom has a physical balance sheet. Signals fused AI AI datacenters sit beside grids, pipelines, LNG, nuclear facilities, cloud regions and power-market exposure. GRID Grid stress, outages, heat, fire and weather layers show which compute corridors are under pressure today. CLIMATE Company, exchange and macro panels show who is exposed when energy, compute and capital collide. MARKET Correlation AI infrastructure risk only appears when physical assets, climate signals and markets share one screen. AI datacenters Power assets Fires + weather Markets [Map AI infrastructure →](https://tech.worldmonitor.app/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=m3) Cables + outages + trade ### The cable break becomes a cascade Signals fused CABLE Subsea cables, landing stations, ports, pipelines and chokepoints are mapped together. BGP Internet and BGP anomaly feeds show whether a physical fault is becoming a digital outage. PORTS Trade corridors, country resilience and redundancy data show who loses fallback routes first. RISK Correlation Cable damage matters when telecom redundancy, trade corridors and country exposure line up. Subsea cables BGP + outages Ports + pipelines Resilience [Trace a cable on the map →](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=m4) Not a list of feeds. A correlation surface: when three systems move together, the map makes it visible ↓ Zero to oriented ## What happens in your first five minutes on the map? No tour, no empty states, no signup wall. This is what actually happens. 0:00 ### The map is already moving Conflicts, vessels, flights, fires and outages render as the page loads. Nothing to configure first. 0:40 ### Click any country A full dossier opens: instability score with its components, an AI brief with cited headlines, active signals, a 7-day timeline. 2:00 ### Hit ⌘K / Ctrl-K Commands. Jump to any layer, panel or country without learning the UI first. 3:30 ### Pick your lens World, Tech, Finance, Commodity, Energy or Happy — same engine, tuned monitors, one click apart. 5:00 ### You've seen maybe a tenth of it The rest surfaces as the world moves — satellite passes, GPS jamming, dark ships, protest clusters, siren alerts. [Start the clock](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=f5m) Under the hood ## How deep is the World Monitor data model? Every number below is live in the dashboard today — not a roadmap. 57 Map layer types 461 News & OSINT feeds 748 Attributed providers 13 Chokepoints · live AIS 31 Instability index · live 170 Resilience rankings 86 Subsea cables 159 Pipelines & LNG 313 AI datacenters mapped 29 Scored hotspots 29 Exchanges & assets 74 MCP tools 618 ⌘K command definitions 28 Languages · RTL incl. 5 Independent alert origins [### Satellite tracking Live orbital positions computed in-browser with SGP4 — watch ISS, Starlink and military birds overhead.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth-n1)[### GPS jamming zones Live RF-interference map showing where GPS is being degraded or spoofed right now.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth-n2)[### Chokepoint transit intel Vessel counts through Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb and 10 more straits — with disruption scoring.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth-n3)[### AI datacenter map AI datacenters mapped with power and operator metadata — the physical layer of the AI race.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth-n4)[### Submarine cables Undersea cables that carry the internet, overlaid with outage and threat signals.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth-n5)[### Protest tracking Dual-source protest detection with cross-source deduplication — signal, not rumor.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth-n6) Don't take the numbers on faith — [open the app and count.](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=depth) [Sources are cited on every panel.](/sources/?utm_source=welcome-depth) For builders & AI agents ## How do I build on World Monitor from my own stack? Everything on the map is also an API. Wire it into Claude over MCP, call the REST endpoints from anywhere, or install a native client for Python, Ruby, Go, or JavaScript — your code researches with live data instead of training-data memories. - MCP tools — risk scores, chokepoints, conflicts, markets, briefs - Documented REST API — one OpenAPI 3.1 spec, one key - Official SDKs on npm, PyPI, RubyGems, and Go — zero-dependency, MCP-first - JMESPath projection on every call — fetch exactly the fields you need Choose your entry point [Agent briefing /llms.txt](/llms.txt)[MCP server worldmonitor.app/mcp](https://worldmonitor.app/mcp)[REST API api.worldmonitor.app](https://api.worldmonitor.app)[Agent view /?mode=agent](/?mode=agent) [$ npm i worldmonitor](https://www.npmjs.com/package/worldmonitor)[$ pip install worldmonitor-sdk](https://pypi.org/project/worldmonitor-sdk/)[$ gem install worldmonitor](https://rubygems.org/gems/worldmonitor)[$ go get github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/sdk/go](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/sdk/go) One key. MCP tools. A full REST API. Language-native clients. [Read the developer docs](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/documentation) claude — session > Is our Red Sea exposure getting worse this week? ⏺ get_chokepoint_status { jmespath: "chokepoints[?name=='Bab el-Mandeb']" } ⏺ get_country_risk { country: "YE" } ⏺ get_maritime_activity { region: "red_sea" } ✓ Transit counts down week-over-week; war-risk tier elevated; two density anomalies in the last 48h. [See the full tool reference →](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/documentation) Access ## Free is the observatory. Pro is the operations room. The dashboard is free — every map layer except Resilience, every feed, no signup. Pro adds the decision layer. ### Free $0 The free tier is a full product, not a trial. Every map layer except Resilience, every feed, every monitor — no signup, no trial clock. - All map layers except Resilience & curated feeds - Country briefs, hotspots, instability scores - Chokepoints, cables, cascade analysis - Breaking alert pipeline & watchlists [Launch Dashboard](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=pricing-free) ### Pro From $39.99/mo · 3 months free when billed annually Act on it. The decision layer used in the moments above: - WM Analyst — chat across live services, with citations - Scenario engine auto-runs hourly on the forecast cron — game disruptions before they hit - Personal AI digest — daily, twice-daily or weekly, to Slack, Telegram or email - MCP, REST API & official SDKs — live tools under one key - Custom widget builder for your own panels [See plans & pricing](/pro#pricing) No catch ## What are common questions about World Monitor? Is World Monitor really free? Yes. The live map — every layer except Resilience, curated feeds, country briefs, breaking alerts, and monitoring surfaces — is free with no signup and no trial clock. Pro pays for the feeds: it adds WM Analyst, the scenario engine, Route Explorer, scheduled digests, MCP access for AI clients and the Resilience map layer. No ads, and no account means there's no user data to sell. What is a global intelligence dashboard? A single live view that fuses signals most tools keep separate: conflict events, ship and aircraft tracking, shipping chokepoints, satellites, subsea cables, pipelines, markets and cyber threats — on one real-time world map, with AI scoring and briefs on top. World Monitor is a free one. Where does the data come from? Named providers include ACLED and UCDP for conflict, AISStream for live vessels, OpenSky for aircraft, NASA FIRMS for fires, USGS for earthquakes, IMF, BIS, FRED and Finnhub for markets and macro — plus curated news feeds. Every panel cites its sources and timestamps inline. Can I watch chokepoints like Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb in real time? Yes. Chokepoints are tracked with live AIS vessel counts, week-over-week transit change and disruption scoring — and density anomalies are flagged against each strait's rolling baseline. How is this different from a conflict map like Liveuamap? Conflict is one map layer. World Monitor fuses conflicts with shipping, military flights, infrastructure, markets and cyber — then AI scores the convergence: instability indices, hotspot escalation, corroborated breaking alerts and daily briefs. Compare World Monitor with Liveuamap and other conflict maps: [worldmonitor.app/compare/liveuamap-alternatives](/compare/liveuamap-alternatives/). Why should I trust an alert? A breaking banner fires only when independent origin types corroborate — news classification, keyword velocity, hotspot escalation, military surges, official sirens — deduplicated and rate-limited. Fewer alerts, real ones. Can AI agents like Claude or GPT use it? Yes. World Monitor ships an MCP server with a live tool registry, so Claude, GPT or any MCP-compatible agent can query live risk scores, chokepoint status, conflicts, markets and briefs — with JMESPath projection so agents fetch exactly what they need. Do I need an account? No. The dashboard works instantly with no signup. An account only matters when you upgrade to Pro or want settings synced across devices. Is it open source? Yes — open source under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub: read the code, self-host it, or build on it. Native desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux are available too, plus an Android TV app for wall displays. Why isn't World Monitor Palantir? Palantir makes an institution's own data operational inside that institution. World Monitor starts from the other end: it assembles, normalizes, correlates, and monitors public-world data, then publishes that intelligence layer through a free dashboard and open-source code. Different job, different product. Which World Monitor license do I need? Choose based on who will use the output. Pro's Personal license is for one person using World Monitor for their own research and decisions. Pro Business lets one licensed user use it for company or client work, internal tools, and reports. API Starter covers API use inside one organization, with no customer redistribution. API Business lets that organization embed World Monitor data in products and services for its customers. Enterprise covers custom seats, white-labeling, and deployments. These subscription licenses are separate from the AGPL/MIT source-code licenses. Full terms: [worldmonitor.app/docs/terms](/docs/terms). ## How do I start watching the world map? While you read this page it kept moving — straits, hotspots, markets, curated feeds. One of them is tomorrow's front page. Find it first — free, no account. [Find it first](/dashboard?utm_source=welcome&utm_content=final) Free · No signup · Loads in seconds [Or see Pro plans →](/pro) # World Monitor — By the time it's news, you already knew. As of 2026-09-04. World Monitor is a free real-time global intelligence dashboard. It brings ships, aircraft, conflict events, alerts, infrastructure, markets, weather, cyber signals, and curated news onto one live map. Its analysis layer helps users see when separate signals begin to converge into one event that matters. The core dashboard is open source under AGPL-3.0 and needs no signup. It runs in the browser, as an installable PWA, and as a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. World Monitor has also been [featured in WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/world-monitor-elie-habib/). ## What World Monitor answers World Monitor is useful when a question depends on more than one live signal. Typical questions include: - What changed in a country, region, market, or supply route since the last briefing? - Does a conflict, sanction, outage, or chokepoint disruption have a credible transmission path into commodities or markets? - Are military flights, vessel movements, alerts, infrastructure conditions, and local reporting pointing in the same direction? - Which sources support a country-risk or resilience assessment, and how fresh are those observations? - What should an analyst monitor next as an event develops? The dashboard supports these tasks with country briefs, conflict tracking, resilience and instability views, market and macro data, shipping intelligence, satellite and aviation layers, cyber-threat signals, weather and natural-disaster alerts, forecasts, and source-attributed news. ## How the correlation surface works World Monitor is designed as a correlation surface, not a single-feed news reader. A useful assessment often has three parts: 1. **Pressure:** a conflict, sanction, election, disaster, outage, or other event changes the local situation. 2. **Transmission:** shipping lanes, ports, pipelines, airspace, cables, suppliers, or financial links can carry that pressure elsewhere. 3. **Consequence:** markets, energy flows, commodity availability, infrastructure risk, or public safety begin to respond. Users can compare these parts on one map and then open the underlying panels for detail. World Monitor does not claim that two nearby signals prove causation. It gives analysts a shared place to test the connection, inspect the cited sources, and decide what evidence is still missing. ## What you get - A global map with a shared catalog of conflict, military, infrastructure, environment, transport, and market layers - Curated news and OSINT feeds grouped by topic and product variant - CII v8 for 31 Tier-1 countries, resilience scores for the 196-country public rankable universe, and global live conflict tracking - Market quotes, sector heatmaps, macro indicators, and commodity context - Shipping chokepoints, ports, and vessel-transit intelligence - Aircraft, satellites, GPS interference, submarine cables, energy assets, and datacenters - AI briefs, scenario forecasts, custom monitors, and alerts - Machine-readable access through MCP, REST, SDKs, a CLI, agent skills, and static discovery files ## Sources, provenance, and freshness World Monitor exposes the providers behind the product instead of asking users to trust a hidden source list. The [Data source catalog](https://www.worldmonitor.app/sources/) lists the current provider inventory by intelligence domain. The [data-source methodology](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/data-sources) explains coverage and provenance in more detail. Data surfaces include source identity, timestamps, methodology, or related context when the upstream provider makes that information available. Update intervals differ by source and domain. Cached data, delayed providers, and temporary source degradation can affect freshness. Check the timestamp and source information in a returned record before you use it in a time-sensitive decision. Operational availability is published on the [status page](https://status.worldmonitor.app). ## Access and plans The public dashboard is free and does not require an account. Pro adds advanced analysis, research, customization, and higher-value workflows. API plans cover programmatic and business use. Current features, limits, prices, and licensing terms are in the [machine-readable pricing guide](https://www.worldmonitor.app/pricing.md) and on the [visual pricing page](https://www.worldmonitor.app/pro#pricing). Public discovery endpoints do not make every data operation anonymous. An MCP or REST call can require OAuth or a World Monitor API key. Read the [authentication guide](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/usage-auth) and [rate-limit guide](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/usage-rate-limits.md) before building an integration. ## Live instances - [World Monitor](https://www.worldmonitor.app/dashboard) — geopolitics, military activity, conflicts, and infrastructure - [Tech Monitor](https://tech.worldmonitor.app/dashboard) — startups, AI and machine learning, cloud, and cybersecurity - [Finance Monitor](https://finance.worldmonitor.app/dashboard) — global markets, trading, and central banks - [Commodity Monitor](https://commodity.worldmonitor.app/dashboard) — mining, metals, energy, and supply chains - [Happy Monitor](https://happy.worldmonitor.app/dashboard) — positive news, breakthroughs, and conservation - [Energy Monitor](https://energy.worldmonitor.app/dashboard) — power, oil and gas, chokepoints, and disruption timelines ## For AI agents Start with the short [llms.txt briefing](https://www.worldmonitor.app/llms.txt), then use this Markdown page or the [extended LLM reference](https://www.worldmonitor.app/llms-full.txt) when you need more context. - [MCP server](https://worldmonitor.app/mcp): Streamable HTTP for structured tool calls. Run `tools/list` to get the current tool inventory instead of relying on a copied count. - [REST API](https://api.worldmonitor.app): structured endpoints described by the [OpenAPI contract](https://www.worldmonitor.app/openapi.yaml). - [Agent-mode homepage](https://www.worldmonitor.app/?mode=agent): a compact JSON summary of endpoints, authentication, capabilities, and discovery files. - [Agent Skills](https://worldmonitor.app/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): task-focused instructions for common country, resilience, and intelligence workflows. - [Agent Plugin metadata](https://www.worldmonitor.app/plugin.json): public metadata for the Agent Plugins 1.0.0 repository package. Install from https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor (root `plugin.json`, `mcp.json`, and `skills/*/SKILL.md` live in the repository, not as sibling HTTP files). - [A2A agent card](https://worldmonitor.app/.well-known/agent-card.json): service identity and protocol discovery for agent-to-agent clients. - [SDK guide](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/sdks) and [worldmonitor CLI](https://www.npmjs.com/package/worldmonitor): supported clients for applications and shell workflows. Use a descriptive `User-Agent` for HTTP requests. Preserve source names, timestamps, and confidence information when you summarize a result. If a data-bearing call returns an authentication error, do not infer that the public discovery endpoint grants access to that operation. ## Trust boundaries World Monitor is not a general web-search engine, a complete historical archive, a classified-intelligence system, or a trading-execution venue. It does not place orders. It can show correlation and provide evidence, but it cannot prove causation or replace professional judgment. For consequential security, financial, legal, or operational decisions, inspect the primary sources and confirm the current state independently. ## Documentation - [Brand identity](https://www.worldmonitor.app/world-monitor.md) — official name, canonical domain, NAP, and press mentions - [Product and API documentation](https://www.worldmonitor.app/docs/documentation) - [Competitor comparisons](https://www.worldmonitor.app/compare/) — World Monitor against Liveuamap, ACLED, GDELT, Dataminr, Recorded Future, Deep State Map, chokepoint trackers and MCP servers, with the cells each competitor wins - [Source catalog](https://www.worldmonitor.app/sources/) - [Support and contact](https://www.worldmonitor.app/support.md) - [GitHub repository](https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor)