WordPress uptime monitoring: what to actually watch
Quick answer
Real WordPress uptime monitoring checks the home page, a deep page, the login screen, and checkout if you take payments, from multiple regions every minute. It alerts on both downtime and slow responses, ignores brief blips, and routes urgent alerts to a real person, not just an email nobody reads.
What to monitor beyond the home page
A logged in admin path, to catch database or session issues.
The checkout or contact form endpoint, because a broken form is invisible without it.
API endpoints if anything integrates with the site.
Avoiding alert fatigue
Require two failed checks in a row before alerting.
Route critical alerts to phone or chat, not just email.
Suppress alerts during planned maintenance windows.
Common questions
How often should monitoring check the site?+
Every minute from at least two regions. More for high revenue sites.
Do you provide uptime monitoring?+
Yes, on every maintenance plan, with multi region checks and real person escalation.
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