1. Create a free account
Sign up and verify your email. The Free plan includes five monitors with five-minute checks.
2. Monitor the homepage
Add a monitor with your site URL, e.g. https://example.com. Keep the defaults: expected status 200–302 and a failure threshold of 2. SSL monitoring is on automatically for HTTPS sites.
3. Monitor wp-login.php
Add https://example.com/wp-login.php. It exercises PHP and the database, so it catches outages a cached homepage can hide.
4. WooCommerce checkout
If you run WooCommerce, monitor /checkout/. Slowdowns here cost sales, and Upmonora's anomaly detection flags them against the page's own baseline.
5. A note on caching plugins
Page caches (LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, Cloudflare) can serve a cached homepage while PHP is down. Monitoring an uncached URL such as wp-login.php avoids false confidence.