WP Heart Throb

Use this plugin to monitor the heart-rate of your WordPress installation.

WordPress uses an API called « Heartbeat » to monitor certain conditions and report to the user if something went wrong.

If your login cookie expires while you’re writing a post, for example, Heartbeat will open a modal window and allow you to log in again.

This plugin adds a small menu item to the WordPress toolbar that does the following things:

• Beats every 1 second to remind you about the API
• Throbs every interval of the Heartbeat API to confirm connection is active

Future versions of this plugin could add a drop-down to this menu with more information.