The core of the Monitor was a web crawler which operated on the websites of interest.
After the crawler identified documents of potential interest, they were reviewed and processed by the editorial staff and entered into the database.
Since its establishment, Diplomacy Monitor was quickly recognized as a convenient tool for research in international issues.
For example, the Monitor is the "editor's choice" for the Intute, an online database network of UK universities.
[1] Michigan State University: "If you need to stay up-to-date on the latest in diplomatic news, look no further..."[2]