Uptime Monitoring

WPGrip monitors your sites every minute and alerts you when something goes wrong.

How It Works

1. Every 60 seconds, WPGrip sends an HTTP request to each monitored site
2. If the site responds with a 2xx status code, it’s marked as up
3. If it fails to respond or returns an error, it’s marked as down
4. Alerts are triggered after consecutive failures (to avoid false positives)

Response Time Tracking

WPGrip captures detailed timing data for every check:

Metric	Description
Total response time	End-to-end request duration
DNS lookup	Time to resolve the domain
TCP connect	Time to establish the TCP connection
TLS handshake	Time for the SSL/TLS negotiation
TTFB	Time to first byte from the server
Transfer	Time to download the response body

This data is displayed as:

• A sparkline in the sites list (last 24 hours)
• A detailed chart on the site’s Monitoring page (with individual timing components)
• Stat cards showing averages and P95 values

Monitoring Page

Each site’s monitoring page includes:

• 24-hour response time chart — line chart with Total, TTFB, TLS, Connect, and DNS layers
• Uptime percentage — calculated over the last 30 days
• Average response time — mean of the last 24 hours
• Current status — up/down with last check timestamp
• SSL certificate status — valid/expiring/expired with expiry date
• Domain expiry — when your domain registration expires

Alerts

When a site goes down, WPGrip sends notifications via:

• In-app notification (always)
• Email notification (configurable)

When the site recovers, you’ll receive a recovery notification with the downtime duration.

Data Retention

Monitoring data (response times, check logs) is retained for 30 days. Older data is automatically pruned.

INFO

Uptime monitoring starts automatically when you add a site. No additional configuration needed.