Uptime monitoring
Uptime monitoring pings your site from the outside and tells you the moment it stops answering. It needs nothing on the site itself, so it keeps working even when WordPress is completely down; it only needs the address.
Turning it on
Open the site’s Uptime page and click Turn on monitoring. In Monitor settings choose how often to check: every 15 minutes on the free plan, or every 1, 5 or 10 minutes with Premium. Checks run from our server in Frankfurt.
Reading the page
- Current status: Up or Down, with the time of the last check.
- Uptime (30 days): the percentage of checks answered.
- Total downtime and incidents (30 days): how much and how often.
- The day chart: one bar per day, green for a clean day, amber or red as downtime accumulates, grey where there is no data yet.
The page refreshes itself every half minute, so an ongoing outage appears without reloading.
Incidents
A single failed check does not raise an alarm; the monitor waits for consecutive failures before opening an incident, so a one-off network blip stays quiet. An incident records when the outage started (backdated to the first failed check) and closes on the first successful check. Open incidents are marked Ongoing.
Email alerts
In Monitor settings, under Notifications, enable Email me when this site goes down. You can:
- list one or more recipients (your account email is the default),
- choose when to send: as soon as the outage is confirmed, or after 2 minutes and only if the site is still down. The delay option means a site that recovers within the window never sends mail at all.
Good to know
- Monitoring is independent of the connector: a site whose plugin connection failed is still monitored.
- A momentary outage never unlinks the site from your dashboard; connection health and uptime are tracked separately.
- Checking more often mostly buys faster detection; 15 minutes is plenty for a portfolio site, 1 minute is right when downtime costs money by the minute.