Monitoring Uptime for WordPress Multisite: User Experience with Pingdom and JetP

  • We have 2 Multisite (MS) platforms and 1 single site and would like to know everyone’s user experience with Pingdom (pingdom.com) and JetPack’s Downtime Monitoring plugin (https://jetpack.com/support/monitor/) for their Multisites. Did they work for you? Did they monitor all your subsites? Ideally, I would like for the install to be simple (i.e. install once on the MS, instead of installing on all subsites (we have over 3000). Any real user experience would be appreciated before I dive into my own testing. Thanks.

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  • In my opinion I wouldn’t be as concerned with monitoring each individual multi-site as I would a select few to ensure all the back-end services are running.

    Keep in mind that each of these are going to share a lot of the basic core features. Each will operate using the same webserver (apache, nginx, litespeed etc), the MySQL database server, often times the same DNS server as well.

    Now it’s still possible for a MU to break due to a localized error in a table specifically for that instance, but this is much less likely than a problem that is impacting all of the instances. We’ve had users report good luck with Pingdom, as well as uptime robot and hyperspin as well. I wouldn’t get overly zealous with monitoring as it can also trigger firewall blocks for too many connections but pick 2-3 of your top instances that “have” to work, monitor those and then understand that likely if one is down they are all down.

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