Bionic Uptime

Bionic Uptime checks your website from outside every 60 seconds, from two locations on two different networks. When both agree the site is down, it sends you one plain email. When the site is back, it sends another.

This plugin puts that status on your WordPress dashboard. It shows the status in words, when the site was last checked, and a link to the full details on bionicuptime.com.

The plugin only reads. The key you paste in lets it read the status of this one website. It cannot change anything in your Bionic Uptime account.

One website is free forever. No card needed. Monitoring more than one website needs the Portfolio plan ($12 a month for up to 20). Get a key at bionicuptime.com/wordpress.

What the widget will never do:

• Show “Online” unless Bionic Uptime said so in the last minute.
• Guess. If the plugin cannot reach Bionic Uptime, it says so in grey. It does not show the last good status.
• Rely on colour alone. Every status has a shape and words.

The plugin adds no notices, no banners and nothing on the public side of your site.

External services

This plugin connects to the Bionic Uptime API at bionicuptime.com to read the status of your website. Without it, the plugin has nothing to show.

• What is sent: the key you saved, and your site’s address as part of the User-Agent (for example BionicUptimeWP/1.0.0; https://example.com).
• When: only after an administrator has saved a key, and only when an administrator opens the dashboard. At most once a minute. Nothing is sent from the public side of your site.
• Where: https://bionicuptime.com/api/v1/status

The service is operated by Bionics LLC (Bionic Uptime). Terms of service. Privacy policy.