Best WordPress monitoring plugins for WordPress
The most popular WordPress monitoring plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SYSSY leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Watchman Tower (20+) and Watchtower (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “wordpress monitoring” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 WordPress monitoring plugins
- 1.
SYSSYThe most installed WordPress monitoring plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 2.
Watchman Tower20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.Watchtower
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 4.
Unifyca Audit Connector10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “wordpress monitoring”

SYSSY
Up in the last 7 days:67#12,067by SYSSY4 months ago
Connects your WordPress website with SYSSY for monitoring and security issue reporting. Requires account on https://www.syssy.net.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Watchman Tower
Down in the last 7 days:653#28,237by watchmantower2 months ago
Centralized WordPress monitoring for agencies. Track uptime, performance, SSL, and site health across multiple client sites.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Watchtower
Up in the last 7 days:2,645#40,879by MattGeri6 years ago
Uptime and performance auditing, monitoring and alerting for WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Unifyca Audit Connector
#41,834by unifyca27 days ago
Connect your WordPress site to Unifyca for centralized management, audits, backups, monitoring and website documentation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day