agentskillexchange WP Cron Health Monitor
Monitors WordPress wp-cron scheduled events using the WP_Cron API and Action Scheduler library. Detects stuck, overdue, or orphaned cron jobs and reports via WP REST API webhooks with configurable alert thresholds.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Make WordPress
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
WP-Cron works by checking, on every page load, a list of scheduled tasks to see what needs to be run. Any tasks due to run will be called during that page load.
WP-Cron does not run constantly as the system cron does; it is only triggered on page load.
With the system scheduler, if the time passes and the task did not run, it will not be re-attempted. With WP-Cron, all scheduled tasks are put into a queue and will run at the next opportunity (meaning the next page l...