Title: Vigilant Healthchecks
Author: vincentbean
Published: <strong>December 22, 2025</strong>
Last modified: December 22, 2025

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# Vigilant Healthchecks

 By [vincentbean](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vincentbean/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/vigilant-healthchecks.1.0.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/vigilant-healthchecks/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/vigilant-healthchecks/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/vigilant-healthchecks/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/vigilant-healthchecks/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/vigilant-healthchecks/)

## Description

Vigilant Healthchecks provides a REST healthcheck endpoint at `/wp-json/vigilant/
v1/health` with an admin interface to conrol which checks are executed.
 This plugin
is designed to integrate with [Vigilant](https://govigilant.io), an all-in-one web
monitoring tool which can be self-hosted.

#### Key Features

 * Protected REST endpoint with configurable token.
 * Built-in checks for database connectivity, core versions, plugin updates, cron
   freshness, Redis, and WordPress Site Health issues.
 * Metrics catalogue for memory, disk, CPU load, and database size with sensible
   caching defaults.
 * Extensible registry and hooks (`vigilant_healthchecks_prepare`, `vigilant_healthchecks_cron_threshold`,`
   vigilant_healthchecks_database_size_cache_ttl`) so you can add custom checks 
   and metrics.
 * Scheduler heartbeat (`vigilant_healthchecks_cron_monitor`) that validates WP-
   Cron is actually running and reports stale schedules.

#### How It Works

 1. Configure the bearer token under **Settings  Vigilant Healthchecks**; every REST
    request must include `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.
 2. Toggle the checks and metrics you want to expose; disabled items are never instantiated
    so they have zero runtime impact.
 3. Call the endpoint yourself or configure your website in Vigilant.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `wordpress-healthchecks` directory to `/wp-content/plugins/` or install
    via Composer (`composer require govigilant/wordpress-healthchecks`).
 2. Activate **Vigilant Healthchecks** through the **Plugins** menu in WordPress.
 3. Visit **Settings  Vigilant Healthchecks** to paste your Vigilant (or custom) token
    and select the desired checks/metrics.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Vigilant Healthchecks” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ vincentbean ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vincentbean/)

[Translate “Vigilant Healthchecks” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/vigilant-healthchecks)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vigilant-healthchecks/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/vigilant-healthchecks/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/vigilant-healthchecks/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/vigilant-healthchecks/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **10 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.10**
 *  PHP version ** 8.2 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/vigilant-healthchecks/)
 * Tags
 * [cron](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cron/)[healthcheck](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/healthcheck/)
   [metrics](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/metrics/)[monitoring](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monitoring/)
   [rest-api](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest-api/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mfe.wordpress.org/plugins/vigilant-healthchecks/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ vincentbean ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vincentbean/)

## Support

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