WordPress uptime monitoring that pages you first.
Your site is requested from 171+ checkpoints outside your server, so a fatal plugin error reaches you and not your visitors. Nothing is installed in wp-admin, and nothing here breaks on your next core update.
Monitoring Logs
every 30 s · rotating locations
Tokyo14:32:18—Down
London14:32:16—Down
New York14:32:14—Down
Frankfurt14:32:11—Down
Amsterdam14:31:41382 msUpNew York14:31:11371 msUpFrankfurt14:30:41358 msUpHTTP Response — Last Check
Amsterdam · 14:31:41Frankfurt · 14:32:11Response Time
avg 390 ms · last 7 daysFour beliefs that break WordPress sites
Each one sounds reasonable. Each one ends with a visitor seeing a white screen — or Google's red one — before you do.
"My hosting plan includes monitoring."
It includes monitoring their server, not your site. A fatal plugin error leaves the box perfectly healthy — PHP running, panel green — while every visitor gets a blank white page.
"To monitor WordPress, you need a plugin."
A monitoring plugin lives inside the thing it's watching — it dies with the site, and it's one more thing that can be the conflict. Watching has to happen from where your visitors are: outside.
"WordPress is battle-tested — 40% of the web runs it."
The core is. But your theme plus your particular twenty plugins is a combination nobody else runs — effectively untested software, tried for the first time on your live site with every update.
"If my site were hacked, I'd notice."
WordPress malware is usually written to hide from you: cloaked spam shows search engines and visitors one thing, the logged-in owner another. Google tends to notice first — with a red warning screen.
"Updates are routine" is the biggest one. Twenty plugins each shipping one update a month is 240 changes a year — one every day and a half. Every one is routine, until the one that isn't — and it doesn't schedule itself inside your working hours.
The question isn't whether an update will eventually break the site. It's whether anything notices when it does.
So what does the morning of a broken plugin update look like — when something outside is watching?↓ minute by minute
The update that broke the site
09:12 — a caching plugin updates and the homepage goes white. wp-admin still loads, the host's panel is still green, and nothing inside WordPress has any reason to complain.
That's the outage covered. But "down" is only one of five ways a WordPress site quietly fails — and the other four all look fine from wp-admin.↓ the other four
Five checks, none inside WordPress
Uptime, page speed, malware, SSL and domain expiry, all run against your site from the outside — none of it on your server. The sixth node isn't a check: it's the public status page the monitoring publishes back out.
Why isn't there an Uptimia plugin?
Because monitoring that lives inside the patient dies with the patient. Most "WordPress monitoring" is one more plugin to update, conflict with your theme, or get wiped by a migration. Uptimia checks your site the way a visitor's browser would, entirely from the outside — your WordPress install never knows it's there.
- Zero footprint — no plugin, no PHP running on your server, no code in your theme
- Nothing to conflict — it can't clash with a page builder or caching plugin, because it isn't on your site
- Keeps working when WordPress can't — a fatal error takes wp-admin down; the external check still sees it and still alerts you
The four ways WordPress sites fail
Checked seconds after you hit Update
A caching plugin that white-screens the site, a host hiccup, a broken .htaccess — 171+ checkpoints keep requesting your homepage as often as every 30 seconds, so you find out in moments. Nothing is sent until three separate regions agree the site is down, so one flaky route never wakes you.
- As often as every 30 seconds — from 171+ checkpoints across 70+ countries
- Confirmed, not guessed — three regions must agree before you're alerted
- Alerts on 12 channels — email, SMS, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, MS Teams, Discord and more
The update that slowed the site
Uptimia loads your site in a real headless Chrome browser and charts its lab Core Web Vitals — LCP, FCP, TTFB and CLS, the load-speed numbers Google grades you on — against Google's own good and poor bands. A heavy new page builder or a bloated theme update shows up as a step on that chart the same day, not as a rankings drop three weeks later.
- Lab Core Web Vitals — LCP, FCP, TTFB and CLS on every check, in a real Chrome load
- Trended over time — see exactly which day the speed changed, and what it lines up with
- Dead-element alerts — a broken image, script or stylesheet on the page raises a flag
Flagged for malware before Google warns
WordPress malware is written to hide from the person who owns the site: the logged-in admin sees a normal dashboard while visitors get redirected. Every scan asks Google's Web Risk database — the same source behind the full-screen red warning — for malware, social engineering and unwanted software. An incident opens on detection and closes itself once you scan clean.
- Google Web Risk — checked for malware, social engineering and unwanted software
- Alerted on detection — before a red warning screen scares your visitors away
- Auto-clears — the incident closes itself once the site scans clean again
Certificate and domain expiry, watched
An expired certificate replaces your site with a browser security warning; an expired domain takes it off the internet entirely. Uptimia reads the live certificate and warns you early, then raises the same alert to critical once expiry is inside 45 days — and refreshes the domain's WHOIS registration as often as once a day.
- Early SSL warning — a heads-up ahead of expiry, escalating to critical as it nears or lapses
- Domain expiry watch — WHOIS registration refreshed as often as daily, ahead of the renewal date
- No broken checkout — catch a lapsing cert before it scares visitors off with a security warning
Told before a visitor tells you
WordPress breaks from the outside in — a plugin update, an expired certificate, a hacked file. Each one reaches you on the channel you actually read.
Microsoft Teams12 channels, one contact list — no plugin involved in any of them.
Browse the full integrations directory →A white screen should page you.Not a customer email, six hours later.
Every check type in the 30-day trial — 500 uptime monitors, 50 each of speed, malware, SSL and domain.
WordPress monitoring in three steps
No plugin, no FTP credentials, no code in your theme. You paste a URL and pick who gets told.
Paste your URL
Type your site's address and pick the checks — uptime, speed, malware, SSL, domain. That's the whole setup.
Route the alerts
Connect the channels you watch — Slack, SMS, WhatsApp, email — so an outage reaches you anywhere.
Get on with your day
Uptimia watches around the clock. If anything breaks you hear first — with an optional status page on your own domain.
Also included with every site
A status page on your own domain
Point a CNAME at us and visitors get status.yoursite.com with your logo and the Uptimia footer link switched off. The HTTPS certificate is issued and renewed for you.
12 alert channels
Email, SMS, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, MS Teams, Discord, PagerDuty, webhook and more — the alert finds you where you are.
Free plan, forever
One website, checked as often as every five minutes, free for good — a real safety net for a single WordPress site.
Real-user monitoring
Add a snippet and see your actual visitors' load times by device, browser and country — real-world speed, from their side.
Set it up from the API
Prefer to script it? Create monitors and status pages from your own tooling with the REST API.
Recovery notices & incident history
When your site comes back, the people alerted hear that too — and every incident is logged, so you see your real uptime over time.
What is WordPress uptime monitoring?
WordPress uptime monitoring is the practice of checking a WordPress site from outside your server — around the clock, from many locations — so you learn the second it goes down, slows, loses its SSL certificate or gets flagged for malware, before your visitors do. Because checks run externally, there's no plugin in wp-admin and nothing that runs on your server, conflicts with your theme, or breaks when core updates.
One more thing that can break
A monitor living inside WordPress goes dark exactly when you need it most.
Keeps watching regardless
The external check has nothing to install, nothing to conflict with, and nothing that fails when your server does.
The checks a WordPress site needs
The failure modes that hit WordPress sites — a bad update, a slow theme, a lapsed certificate, a hack — all checked from outside, nothing to install.
See all monitor types →| Check | What it catches | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime | A bad update or host outage | Checks up to every 30 s, confirmed from 3 regions |
| Page speed | A theme or plugin tanking load time | Real headless-Chrome load · LCP, FCP, TTFB, CLS |
| Malware | The site getting hacked & flagged | Checked against Google's Web Risk database |
| SSL certificate | A lapsing padlock & checkout | Early warning, escalating to critical near expiry |
| Domain expiry | A missed domain renewal | WHOIS registration checked for the expiry date |
WordPress monitoring FAQ
01Do you have a WordPress plugin?+
02What is WordPress uptime monitoring?+
03How does it monitor a WordPress website without a plugin?+
04How often is my site checked, and how fast will I know?+
05Can it tell me if a plugin or theme update slowed my site down?+
06Will it catch it if my WordPress site gets hacked?+
07Does it watch my SSL certificate and domain too?+
08Can I give a client or team member a login to just their one site?+
09Is there a free plan for a single WordPress site?+
Keep your WordPress site up.
Point Uptimia at your site and it watches from the outside — uptime, speed, malware, SSL and domain — so a broken update reaches you before it reaches your visitors.