The WP Status plugin for Wordpress provides a status endpoint that can be used by automated monitoring systems to check the health and status of a Wordpress installation.
In your Wordpress site visit the plugins install page e.g. https://mywordpresssite.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php
Search for 'WP Status' and use the 'install' button.
The plugin can be manually installed by creating a directory in your wordpress site for the plugin i.e.
mkdir -p ./wp-content/plugins/wp-status
Then copy the file wp-status.php into that directory.
In the Wordpress Admin menu locate the 'WP Status' settings page under the 'Settings' menu.
In the settings page you can:
- set the password used to access the endpoint
- view an example curl command and address used to access the endpoint
Test that your endpoint is working correctly by sending a curl request to the endpoint. An example is shown below that you can amend for your own web address:
curl -H "Authorization: yourpassword" https://yourwordpresssite.com/wp-json/wp-status/v1/wp-status
The aim of WP Status is to be integrated into your existing monitoring systems. Some examples are provided below:
You can create your own Nagios check script to parse the content of the JSON provided by WP Status or use the check_wp_status file provided in this repo.
The check_wp_status binary can be downloaded from the Github Releases page or it can be compiled with:
cd integrations/nagios/check_wp_status
go build -o dist/check_wp_status
The binary produced in the dist folder can then be copied to your nagios installation e.g. /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_wp_status
The wp_status binary can be downloaded from the Github Releases page or it can be compiled with:
cd integrations/munin/wp_status
go build -o dist/wp_status
The binary produced in the dist folder can then be copied to your munin installation e.g. /usr/share/munin/plugins/wp_status