PingView — External Uptime Monitoring
A plugin that watches your site from inside your site cannot tell you when your site is gone. PingView checks your WordPress site from servers outside your hosting, so an outage, an expired certificate, or a lapsed domain reaches you by email instead of reaching your customers first.
Setup is one field. Enter the address alerts should go to, and PingView creates the monitor for you. There is no account to create first, no API key to copy, and no code running on your visitors’ page loads.
What you get in the WordPress admin
- Current status, uptime for the last 24 hours and 7 days, and response time
- A 24 hour availability chart, one block per time bucket, so a short outage is visible instead of averaged away
- Per-location results, so you can tell «the site is down» apart from «the site is slow from one region»
- SSL certificate and domain registration expiry, with days remaining
- Recent incidents: what broke, when, and how long it lasted
- A status indicator in the admin bar on every screen
What PingView does outside WordPress
- Checks your site from external locations on the interval in your plan
- Sends downtime alerts to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, webhooks, or SMS
- Warns before an SSL certificate or domain registration expires
- Runs daily Google Lighthouse scans (performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO) and a Mozilla Observatory security grade on paid plans
- Publishes a status page you can share with clients
Who it is for
Agencies and freelancers who maintain sites for other people, shop owners whose downtime costs orders, and anyone who has found out about an outage from a customer email.
How it works
- Install and activate the plugin
- Enter the address alerts should go to
- PingView creates an external monitor and starts checking your site
The monitoring runs on PingView’s servers. Nothing is added to your site’s frontend, and nothing runs during a visitor’s request.
External Services
This plugin depends on the PingView external monitoring service (https://pingview.app). The service creates or connects a monitor, checks the configured website from external locations, sends downtime alerts, and returns monitoring information for the WordPress admin dashboard. The plugin cannot provide monitoring functionality without this service.
What the service is and what it is used for: PingView is an external website monitoring service provided by PingView. It checks website availability, performance, certificates, and incidents from external locations and provides the results shown by this plugin.
What data is sent and when: – During new account setup: the administrator’s email address, WordPress site URL, site name, plugin version, and a source identifier stating that the request came from the WordPress plugin. – When connecting an existing account: the API token entered by the administrator. The token is sent in an authorization header so PingView can validate the account and list or create its monitors. – When a monitor is created: the site URL, generated monitor name, monitor type, check interval, response-time threshold, and selected monitoring locations. – When loading or refreshing the dashboard: the stored monitor identifier and API token, used to retrieve current monitoring status. – After setup, PingView’s external servers request the monitored site URL at the configured interval to measure availability and related monitoring signals.
When data is transmitted: – When the administrator submits either setup form. – When the PingView admin dashboard is opened or manually refreshed. – Continuously after setup, when PingView performs external checks of the configured site according to the monitor’s settings.
Service provider: PingView
Terms of Service: https://pingview.app/en/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://pingview.app/en/privacy-policy