Best healthcheck plugins for WordPress
The most popular healthcheck plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Healthcheck leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Supervisor (100+) and VerCheck API (40+). All 6 plugins tagged “healthcheck” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 healthcheck plugins
- 1.WP Healthcheck
The most installed healthcheck plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Supervisor100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
VerCheck API40+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 4.
NPC Maintenance Inspector20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
CronheartFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 days ago.
- 6.Vigilant Healthchecks
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 6 plugins tagged “healthcheck”
WP Healthcheck
Up in the last 7 days:3#6,475by Tiago Hillebrandt3 months ago
WP Healthcheck is a plugin to check the health of your WordPress install.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Supervisor
Down in the last 7 days:122#14,663by Tiago Hillebrandt1 year ago
Supervisor is a powerful plugin designed to enhance both the performance and security of your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

VerCheck API
#21,450by Roland Bende4 months ago
A REST API endpoint for checking WordPress core, theme, and plugin versions.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NPC Maintenance Inspector
Down in the last 7 days:226#27,854by npc0116 days ago
WordPress maintenance health-check tool with 9-point diagnostics, history tracking, and optional AI-powered reports.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Cronheart
Down in the last 7 days:362#54,362by cronheart3 days ago
Dead-man-switch monitoring for WP-Cron: a site heartbeat plus start, success and fail pings per event. Get alerted when scheduled jobs stop running.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Vigilant Healthchecks
#71,082by vincentbean10 months ago
A WordPress plugin that provides healthchecks to your WordPress site that integrate seamlessly with Vigilant (https://govigilant.io).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day