WordPress Uptime & Response Time Monitor
This utility monitors the uptime and response time of a WordPress website (or any website). It logs the status code and response time to a CSV file for historical tracking and prints alerts to the console if the site is down or slow.
Modules Used:
- requests: To send HTTP requests and measure response time.
time: To handle scheduling and timestamps.- csv: To log data for analysis.
- argparse: To handle command-line arguments.
The Code
Save this as uptime_monitor.py.
import requests
import time
import csv
import argparse
import os
from datetime import datetime
def log_status(file_path, timestamp, url, status_code, response_time, status):
file_exists = os.path.isfile(file_path)
with open(file_path, 'a', newline='') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
# Write header if file is new
if not file_exists:
writer.writerow(['Timestamp', 'URL', 'Status Code', 'Response Time (s)', 'Status'])
writer.writerow([timestamp, url, status_code, f"{response_time:.4f}", status])
def check_site(url, threshold, log_file):
try:
start_time = time.time()
# Set a timeout to prevent hanging indefinitely
response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
end_time = time.time()
response_time = end_time - start_time
status_code = response.status_code
if status_code == 200:
if response_time > threshold:
status = "SLOW"
print(f"[WARNING] {url} is SLOW. Response: {response_time:.4f}s")
else:
status = "UP"
print(f"[OK] {url} is UP. Response: {response_time:.4f}s")
else:
status = "DOWN"
print(f"[ALERT] {url} returned status {status_code}")
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
status_code = 0
response_time = 10.0
status = "TIMEOUT"
print(f"[ALERT] {url} timed out.")
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
status_code = 0
response_time = 0.0
status = "CONNECTION ERROR"
print(f"[ALERT] Could not connect to {url}")
except Exception as e:
status_code = 0
response_time = 0.0
status = "ERROR"
print(f"[ERROR] {e}")
timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
log_status(log_file, timestamp, url, status_code, response_time, status)
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="WordPress Uptime Monitor")
parser.add_argument("url", help="URL of the WordPress site")
parser.add_argument("--interval", type=int, default=60, help="Check interval in seconds (default: 60)")
parser.add_argument("--threshold", type=float, default=2.0, help="Slow response threshold in seconds (default: 2.0)")
parser.add_argument("--log", default="uptime_log.csv", help="Log file path (default: uptime_log.csv)")
args = parser.parse_args()
print(f"Monitoring {args.url} every {args.interval} seconds...")
print("Press Ctrl+C to stop.")
try:
while True:
check_site(args.url, args.threshold, args.log)
time.sleep(args.interval)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("\nMonitoring stopped.")Usage
# Monitor a site every 30 seconds, flagging responses slower than 1.5s
python uptime_monitor.py https://my-wordpress-site.com --interval 30 --threshold 1.5