Monitrova: Website Monitoring That Tells You What Actually Went Wrong
I’ve been quietly building Monitrova, and it has grown into something much bigger than a basic uptime monitor.
The idea is simple: know when something is wrong with a website before your client calls you.
Monitrova now watches more than whether a server returns HTTP 200.
It monitors:
• Uptime from multiple locations
• SSL certificates
• Domain expiry
• DNS changes
• Unexpected website content changes
• Backups, cron jobs and other scheduled tasks via heartbeat monitoring
• API endpoints
• Homepage health and backend errors
• WordPress plugin, theme and core updates
• Known WordPress vulnerabilities
• WooCommerce problems
• PHP fatal errors through the WordPress Site Agent
But one of the things I care about most is not sending pointless alerts.
Monitrova confirms failures, detects flapping sites, suppresses unnecessary recovery emails and groups repeated problems rather than filling your inbox or Slack channel with noise.
For WordPress sites, Site Agent also gives you the context behind an outage.
If a plugin updated at 03:10 and the site crashed at 03:14, you can see both events on the same timeline instead of starting the usual hunt through logs.
There’s also a growing collection of free tools for checking uptime, SSL, DNS, domain expiry, redirects, security headers, WordPress, WooCommerce, APIs and more without creating an account.
The Free plan monitors one website forever. No credit card and no trial countdown.
Monitrova is still being built by one developer, and that means feedback genuinely affects what I build next.
If you manage your own websites or client sites, I’d love to know:
What would Monitrova need to monitor before you would trust it with your sites?
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