WordPress Uptime Monitoring: Four Checks That Matter
WordPress uptime monitoring belongs outside the site: four external checks that catch a dead database, a stalled wp-cron and an expired certificate.
4 posts tagged "Heartbeats".
WordPress uptime monitoring belongs outside the site: four external checks that catch a dead database, a stalled wp-cron and an expired certificate.
A server health check has two halves: commands on the box for saturation, and a probe from outside for reachability. Here is how to run both.
Cron job monitoring starts with your crontab. Here is how to turn five schedule fields into an expected period, plus the DST trap that breaks them.
Heartbeat monitoring waits for your cron job to check in, then alerts when the signal never arrives. Here is how to size the grace period.