WordPress - REST API
93-wordpress-rest-api.yaml
HTTP(S)
What this example does
WordPress operations: WordPress - REST API. Use it for routine availability checks, post-update verification and incident triage.
Checks and behavior
- Sends an GET request to https://www.example.com/wp-json/.
- Checks allowed/denied HTTP status codes.
- Validates required, forbidden or matching HTTP headers.
- Looks for expected response content and/or rejects known error markers.
- Validates redirect behavior and destination constraints.
- TLS settings cover certificate trust, certificate expiry.
- Formats results for nagios output.
Adapt example domains, addresses, credentials and thresholds to your environment before use.
YAML configuration
# Copyright (c) 2026 mati peterson. Maintainer: mati peterson <ipsonic@mailbox.org>. Project: https://ipsonic.com/probe/. Disclaimer: Provided AS IS, without warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk; validate checks and configurations before production use.
# Optional WordPress REST API availability check.
# Only use if /wp-json/ is enabled and accessible by design.
name: "WordPress - REST API"
url: "https://www.example.com/wp-json/"
request:
method: GET
user_agent: "ipsonic-probe-wordpress/1.0"
headers:
Accept: application/json
follow_redirects: true
timeouts:
connect: 3
response: 10
tls:
verify: true
min_valid_days: 30
tests:
status:
allow: [200]
redirects:
max_count: 2
require_https: true
allowed_hosts: [www.example.com, example.com]
headers:
contains:
Content-Type: [application/json]
body:
contains: ['"namespaces"']
not_contains: ["Fatal error", "Traceback"]
monitoring:
service_name: "WordPress REST API"
output: nagios
on_failure: critical