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title: Site Monitoring
description: Proactive alerts for site errors, brute-force attempts, and exploit signatures.
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## What it does

Site Monitoring watches your site's logs, error rates, and access patterns in the background. If something looks unusual — a sustained spike in 500 errors, a brute-force pattern against a login page, a request matching a known exploit signature — you get an alert.

By default, alerts go to the contact email on your account. SMS is available for critical-severity events if you opt in.

## What's included

- **Real-time log scanning** across PHP, Apache, and access logs.
- **Brute-force detection** on auth endpoints (WordPress wp-login.php, generic /login, mail auth, SFTP).
- **Exploit-signature alerts** with severity grading (informational, warning, critical).
- **Per-rule ignore lists** so you can mute things you've already triaged or know are harmless for your site.
- **SMS notifications** for critical-severity alerts (configurable; off by default).

## How to enable

Site Monitoring is enabled per site. From the [client portal](https://secure.anhonesthost.com/clientarea.php), go to your hosting service → **Upgrade/Downgrade** and pick Site Monitoring.

## Where it lives in WHP

Once enabled, find it in the sidebar: **Site Monitoring**.

![WHP Site Monitoring page](~/assets/screenshots/whp/whp-site-monitoring.png)

When the add-on isn't enabled, the page reads: *"AI monitoring is not enabled for any of your sites. Contact your hosting provider to enable this feature."*

Once enabled, the page shows a feed of events with severity badges and counts. Click an event for the full log context.

## Tuning false positives

Some signatures are noisier than others — for example, a security scanner you run yourself will trip every exploit-signature rule. Open the rule from the event detail and click **Ignore** to mute it for your account; the rule stays active for everyone else.

If you find yourself muting a rule frequently, [open a ticket](https://secure.anhonesthost.com/submitticket.php) — we may be able to tune the underlying rule for everyone instead of you suppressing each instance.

## Related

- [Add-ons overview](/whp/add-ons/overview/)

## Still stuck?

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