Know the instant your site goes down. Pings your URL on a configurable schedule and sends an email alert so you can act before visitors notice.
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Instant notification the moment downtime is detected.
Check every 1–60 minutes — configurable per site.
Status codes and errors logged on every check.
Only alert after N consecutive failures to avoid false alarms.
Up and running in under 5 minutes.
Install from WordPress.org and activate. The plugin adds a Downtime Monitor menu item to your WordPress admin.
Enter the URL to monitor — typically your homepage. Add your alert email address where notifications should be sent.
Choose how often to check (every 1–60 minutes) and set a fail threshold to avoid false alarms from brief hiccups.
If your site returns a non-200 status or times out, you get an email immediately. The admin panel shows the last check time, HTTP code, and consecutive fail count.
No, if you set the fail threshold above 1. A threshold of 3 means your site has to fail 3 checks in a row before an alert is sent — filtering out brief server hiccups.
Whatever you enter in the Alert Email field in settings. Alerts are sent via wp_mail(), so if you have an SMTP plugin configured (WP Mail SMTP, Postmark, etc.) it will be used automatically.
The current free version monitors one URL per site. Multi-URL monitoring is planned for the pro version.
It depends on your check interval — the minimum is every 1 minute. The plugin uses WordPress cron, which runs when your site receives a request, so very low-traffic sites may experience slight delays. For stricter guarantees, pair it with a server-level cron trigger.