WordPress uptime monitoring that catches the quiet failures
WordPress sites rarely fail dramatically. A plugin update leaves a white screen, a hosting limit trips on a busy day, a certificate renewal silently fails — and the site is down until someone notices.
Why this matters for wordpress sites
The strength of WordPress — thousands of plugins, easy updates — is also why sites break. An automatic update can trigger a PHP error that returns a 500 page to every visitor while your admin session still looks fine. Shared hosting can throttle or suspend a busy site. And free certificates from the host's auto-installer can fail to renew without any message.
What to monitor
- The homepage — a fatal PHP error returns HTTP 500, which we treat as down and report with that cause.
- A key inner page such as contact, pricing or booking, where a plugin conflict may appear first.
- Your SSL certificate, so a failed auto-renewal is flagged weeks ahead.
- Broken links — weekly checks find links left dead by migrations, deleted posts and removed plugins.
How OwlHound helps
- 5-minute checks, confirmed before alerts — failures are retried and confirmed, so every email is real. How uptime monitoring works.
- SSL and domain expiry warnings well before anything lapses. Learn more.
- A weekly report with uptime, outages and response times, and optional Slack or Discord alerts.
For people who look after many WordPress sites
If you maintain WordPress sites for clients, the agency plan puts up to ten of them on one dashboard with a white-label weekly report, so "your site was fine this week" becomes something you can show.
Frequently asked questions
Will I know if a plugin update breaks my site?
If it makes the page return an error or stop responding, yes — within about 5 to 10 minutes, with the HTTP error as the cause. A visual glitch on a page that still loads can't be detected by uptime checks.
Do I need to install a plugin?
No. OwlHound checks your site from the outside; nothing is installed on WordPress.
Does it check wp-admin or logged-in pages?
No. We only monitor public pages and never log in.
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