Scanfully

Scanfully monitors your WordPress sites for downtime, slowdowns, vulnerabilities, broken content, email delivery, DNS and SSL, with an activity log.

SCANFULLY FOR WORDPRESS

Your WordPress site can be online while other things are already going wrong.

Emails can stop arriving. Images can disappear. Performance can drop. DNS can change. SSL can fail. A vulnerable plugin can remain installed.

Scanfully monitors those signals and combines them with activity from inside WordPress. This gives you a clearer picture of what changed, what failed, and what needs attention.

The Scanfully plugin connects your WordPress site to your Scanfully dashboard. It securely syncs essential site information, Site Health data, and WordPress activity.

Scanfully stores and processes monitoring data outside WordPress. This keeps most monitoring work away from your site’s database and frontend.

External checks monitor uptime, performance, SSL, DNS, vulnerabilities, content, and email deliverability. Meanwhile, the plugin provides the WordPress context around those checks.

Together, those signals help you spot problems earlier and understand what happened around the same time.

SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING ACROSS YOUR WORDPRESS SITES

Scanfully brings monitoring data from all your connected WordPress sites into one dashboard.

But putting everything in one place is only part of the value.

Monitoring signals become much more useful when you can see them together.

A plugin update might be followed by a performance drop. A DNS change might affect email delivery. A content edit might introduce broken images or links.

Scanfully combines those events and checks, so you have more context when something changes.

Instead of jumping between different monitoring tools and WordPress dashboards, you can see what happened from one place.

SCANFULLY FEATURES

Scanfully monitors different parts of your WordPress sites because site health is more than uptime alone.

WORDPRESS ACTIVITY LOG

Scanfully records important activity from inside WordPress.

This includes plugin and theme updates, installs and deletions, failed updates, content changes with what changed in each post, the media library, WordPress settings, menus and widgets, the Customizer and the Site Editor, edits in the plugin and theme file editors, and changes to users.

For accounts with elevated rights, it also records logins, password and email address changes, and application passwords. Failed logins are counted per hour, so Scanfully can tell you when a login attack starts.

The Activity Log becomes especially useful when you compare those events with monitoring data. It helps you understand what changed before a problem appeared.

UPTIME MONITORING

Scanfully checks whether your WordPress sites remain available and reachable.

It records outages and recoveries, and it can notify you when availability changes.

Our uptime monitoring also supports CDN-aware checks for sites that sit behind a CDN.

PERFORMANCE MONITORING

Scanfully runs regular performance checks and tracks how site speed changes over time.

The dashboard shows performance in easy-to-read graphs, so you can spot slowdowns and investigate when they started.

Performance data can include DNS lookup time, connection time, TLS negotiation, TTFB, and download time.

This helps you look beyond a single page-load number when diagnosing a slowdown.

SITE HEALTH

Scanfully collects Site Health information from WordPress and brings it into your Scanfully dashboard.

You can review important WordPress health data without logging into every individual site.

Scanfully also lists your must-use plugins and drop-ins, which the regular plugin list does not show, and warns you about the ones you have not marked as expected.

This becomes especially useful when you manage several WordPress sites.

CONTENT HEALTH

A site can be online and fast while parts of its content are still broken.

Scanfully’s Content Health monitoring checks links and media used across your pages.

The Broken Links monitor checks internal and external links and identifies links that no longer work. It also shows where Scanfully found them.

The Broken Media monitor checks images, scripts, stylesheets, videos, audio, embeds, and iframes. It identifies assets that fail to load and shows where they are used.

Together, these checks help you find content problems before visitors or clients report them.

SSL CERTIFICATE MONITORING

Scanfully checks whether your site’s SSL certificate is still present and working correctly.

SSL problems can affect browser trust, forms, payment flows, redirects, integrations, and other site functionality.

Monitoring helps you spot certificate problems before they remain unnoticed for too long.

DNS MONITORING

Scanfully monitors important DNS records and changes.

DNS affects far more than where your website points. It also plays a role in email delivery, SSL, CDN behavior, and site availability.

Tracking DNS alongside your other monitoring data gives you more context when something suddenly stops working.

VULNERABILITY MONITORING

Scanfully checks installed WordPress plugins and themes for known vulnerabilities.

When a known vulnerability affects software on one of your sites, Scanfully gives you the information needed to investigate it.

This helps you focus on vulnerabilities that are actually relevant to the WordPress sites you manage.

EMAIL DELIVERABILITY MONITORING

WordPress can report that an email was sent even when that message never reaches an inbox.

Scanfully monitors the email delivery path beyond the initial WordPress send attempt.

It can check mail delivery, important DNS authentication records, blocklist status, and whether a test message reaches an actual inbox.

This helps you detect problems affecting contact forms, password resets, WooCommerce emails, membership emails, and other WordPress-generated messages.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Scanfully notifies you when monitored events need your attention.

You decide where those notifications should go using notification channels.

Scanfully currently supports email, Slack, Discord, and Pushover.

The goal is to surface useful changes without forcing you to watch the dashboard all day.

SHAREABLE REPORTS

Some findings need to be shared with clients, team members, or other people responsible for the site.

Scanfully supports shareable reports that give others direct access to relevant findings.

This is particularly useful for Content Health reports covering broken links and broken media.

Instead of sending screenshots or manually rewriting findings, you can share the actual results.

MONITOR WORDPRESS WITH MORE CONTEXT

No single check can tell you whether a WordPress site is healthy.

A site can be online but slow. It can be fast but contain broken images. WordPress can send an email that never arrives. DNS can change while WordPress itself looks perfectly normal.

That is why Scanfully monitors your site from several angles.

It combines external monitoring with information from inside WordPress, giving you better visibility into what changed and what needs attention.

Monitoring does not prevent every problem.

But it gives you a better chance of spotting problems earlier, diagnosing them faster, and understanding what happened.

More information

• Visit the Scanfully website
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External services

This plugin connects your site to Scanfully, a monitoring service at scanfully.com. It sends nothing until you connect your site to your Scanfully account.

Once connected, the plugin sends data to the Scanfully API at api.scanfully.com in the background:

• Site information and Site Health results, such as the WordPress, PHP and server versions, and the list of plugins, themes, must-use plugins and drop-ins. This is sent on connect, every 3 hours and after a plugin change.
• The WordPress activity described above, as it happens. It includes the display name of the person who made a change, and the old and new value of a changed setting. Content and file editor changes are sent as a short diff of the lines that changed.
• For accounts with elevated rights only: their email address with their user events, and the IP address and browser of their logins and of the first use of an application password.
• Failed logins as counts per hour, with the accounts with elevated rights that were tried, but without IP addresses or the usernames tried.
• When WooCommerce is active: the shop details a test checkout needs, such as the product, shipping method and checkout page, on connect, once a day and when they change. Scanfully only places test orders when WooCommerce checkout monitoring is on for the site, and the plugin cancels and removes them.

Email deliverability checks are on by default: the plugin sends test emails to a Scanfully address through your site’s own mail setup. You can turn them off under Settings > Scanfully.

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