StoreUptime and Titanium Site Watch run several application-aware checks inside WordPress. For those scheduled local checks, the most reliable setup is a hosting/server cron that wakes WordPress once per minute.
wp-cron.php every 1 minute. This wakes the lightweight scheduler only; the checks still obey their own configured intervals.Normal WordPress cron is checked when WordPress handles a request. Quiet sites can have long gaps between requests, and CDN or full-page caching can serve visitors without loading WordPress at all.
When WordPress wakes late, a due local monitoring task can start late too.
Delayed local execution can make check timestamps trail behind the selected cadence, delay problem detection and miss short-lived failures that occur between late scheduler runs.
A real one-minute cron provides frequent, predictable opportunities to start the exact check family that is due.
The server gives WordPress a chance to process due scheduled work.
It determines which local check family, if any, is actually due.
Signed-in pages, content rules and WooCommerce diagnostics are not repeated every minute unless their own interval says they are due.
Due local results normally push outbound; a bounded fallback can request only a missing predefined check result.
Create a cron job in your hosting panel or server scheduler and configure it to invoke WordPress once per minute. A common HTTP-style job requests https://example.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron. Servers with WP-CLI can use a local command such as wp cron event run --due-now.
DISABLE_WP_CRON=true after the real server cron is confirmed working. Disabling visitor-triggered WP-Cron without a replacement can leave WordPress scheduled tasks unable to run on time.StoreUptime's outside availability monitoring runs independently of your WordPress scheduler, so a hosting outage can still be observed even when WordPress itself cannot execute.
WordPress Health, Signed-in Page Check, Critical Content, Selected WordPress Pages and WooCommerce Health run in the monitored WordPress installation. Reliable scheduled execution therefore depends on a healthy WordPress scheduler.