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Uptime monitoring

Know a WordPress site is down before the person paying you does

Checks every 60 seconds from multiple regions, confirmed from a second location before anyone is alerted, with escalation that keeps going until a human acknowledges. Response time is tracked alongside availability so you see a site degrading before it falls over.

Included on every plan. No add-on pricing.

app.wpcentrify.com/monitoring
AvailabilityLive
Uptime 30d
99.98%
within SLA
Incidents
2
both resolved
Avg response
312ms
down 18%
SSL expiring
1
in 12 days
NRnorthridge-dental.com
No incidents in 90 days
100%284ms
HVharvest-collective.store
1 incident, 4m 12s, resolved
99.97%410ms
LMlakemont-legal.co.uk
SSL expires in 12 days
99.81%702ms
MPmeridian-partners.com
Response time trending up
99.94%1.4s
The problem

Downtime you find out about from a client

The average WordPress outage is not a dramatic server failure. It is a PHP memory limit hit during a traffic spike, an expired SSL certificate, a database connection exhausted by a badly written query, or a plugin update that took the site down at 2am on a Sunday. All of them are short, all of them are invisible unless something is watching, and all of them do damage to the relationship if the client notices first.

Free monitoring tools check every five minutes from a single location. A five minute interval means an outage can last nine minutes before you are told, and a single location means a routing problem gets reported as a site failure.

What this looks like without a platform

  • Five minute check intervals that miss short outages entirely
  • False alerts from one flaky monitoring location
  • Alert emails buried in an inbox nobody reads on weekends
  • No response time history, so you never see a site degrading
How it works

A WordPress uptime monitoring guide: how it works

60 second checks from multiple regions

Every connected site is checked from several geographic locations on a 60 second cycle. A site is only marked down when the failure is confirmed from a second region, which removes almost all false positives caused by network routing.

More than a 200 status code

A WordPress site can return HTTP 200 while displaying a database error or a white screen. WPCentrify checks status code, response time, expected content on the page, SSL validity and certificate expiry, and can watch specific URLs like a checkout or login page rather than only the home page.

Alerting that escalates

Route alerts to email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord or a webhook. Set quiet hours, on-call rotation, and escalation so an unacknowledged critical alert moves to the next person rather than sitting unread.

Response time as an early warning

Availability tells you the site is up. Response time tells you it is about to stop being up. WPCentrify tracks response time trends per site and alerts on sustained degradation, not just outright failure.

In practice

WordPress SSL monitoring and what you get after an incident

Automatic incident records

Start time, end time, duration, error returned, and which regions saw the failure, recorded without anyone writing it down.

Root cause context

The incident is correlated with what else happened: an update that ran, a plugin that changed, a traffic spike, or a certificate that expired.

SLA tracking against your commitments

If you promise 99.9 percent to a client, WPCentrify measures against that number and warns you before the month's budget is spent.

Client-facing status without extra work

Uptime figures flow into the monthly report and the client portal automatically. Nobody has to screenshot a graph.

At scale

Monitor multiple WordPress sites from one place

  • Portfolio-wide availability with the worst performers surfaced first
  • Public or private status pages per client
  • Monitor specific critical URLs, not just the home page
  • SSL certificate expiry warnings well before renewal
  • Domain expiry and DNS change detection
  • Maintenance windows that suppress alerts during planned work
Answers

Questions about uptime monitoring

What people ask before they turn this on.

A failure is detected within 60 seconds and confirmed from a second region within another 30, so a typical alert reaches you inside 90 seconds of a site going down.

Rarely. Single-region failures are treated as suspect and re-checked elsewhere before anything is sent. Most false alerts in monitoring come from tools that trust one vantage point.

Yes. Authenticated monitoring can check a dashboard, account area or checkout step that anonymous visitors never see.

Yes, through the white-labelled client portal or a status page on your own domain. It appears in the monthly report automatically as well.

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