Adding a site to Status Cake for monitoring

Audience: Web Ops Team and Web Working Group Members.

What: A guide for how we add a site to Status Cake.

Status Cake is an uptime monitoring tool we use to get notifications if and when a website becomes unreachable.

Add up-time monitoring

  1. Login to Status Cake
  2. Go to up-time monitoring
  3. Add new up-time test
  4. Select WPEngine as the user group

Add SSL certificate check

  1. Login to Status Cake
  2. Click SSL monitoring
  3. Click now SSL check
  4. Select WPEngine as the user group

Other checks

  • You can add a virus test but we are limited to 10 sites.
  • You can add a domain check but many TLDs are not supported.