Sera Pulse: Site Health Monitoring Guide

Sera Pulse monitors your WordPress site's vital signs in real-time, providing database optimization, cron management, error tracking, and AI-powered maintenance automation. It requires Sera Core.

Health Dashboard

The Pulse dashboard (Sera > Pulse) shows:

• Overall Health Score — A 0-100 score based on multiple health indicators
• Database Status — Table sizes, overhead, and optimization recommendations
• PHP Status — PHP version, memory usage, error count
• Cron Status — Scheduled tasks, missed events, and stuck jobs
• Disk Usage — WordPress installation size, uploads, and available space
• Uptime — Current uptime streak and historical uptime percentage

Database Optimization

One-Click Optimization

Click Optimize Database to:

• Remove post revisions (configurable retention period)
• Clean auto-drafts and trashed posts
• Remove spam and trashed comments
• Optimize database tables (OPTIMIZE TABLE)
• Clean transient options
• Remove orphaned metadata

Scheduled Optimization

Set up automatic database maintenance:

• Frequency — Daily, weekly, or monthly
• Tasks — Select which optimization tasks to run
• Retention — How many post revisions to keep (default: 5)

Table Analysis

View detailed information for each database table:

• Row count and data size
• Index size and overhead
• Last optimization date
• Recommendations (optimize, repair, or leave alone)

Cron Job Manager

WordPress uses WP-Cron for scheduled tasks. Pulse provides a visual manager:

• View all scheduled events — See every cron job with its schedule, next run time, and hook name
• Manual execution — Run any cron job immediately
• Delete events — Remove stuck or orphaned cron events
• Add custom events — Schedule new cron jobs from the dashboard
• Cron health — Detect if WP-Cron is disabled or not firing properly

PHP Error Log Viewer

View and search PHP errors without leaving WordPress:

• Real-time log — Tail the PHP error log with auto-refresh
• Search and filter — Find errors by type (notice, warning, fatal), file, or message
• Error grouping — Group identical errors with occurrence count
• Clear log — Purge the error log with one click

Uptime Monitoring

Pulse monitors your site's availability:

• Ping interval — How often to check (default: 5 minutes)
• Alert threshold — How many failed checks before alerting (default: 2)
• Response time tracking — Monitor page load times over time
• Downtime log — Historical record of all downtime events

AI Auto-Pilot Mode

When connected to Sera Core's AI Engine, Pulse can operate in Auto-Pilot mode:

• Automatic optimization — Runs database optimization when overhead exceeds a threshold
• Error analysis — AI analyzes PHP errors and suggests fixes
• Predictive maintenance — Identifies potential issues before they cause problems
• Smart scheduling — Adjusts maintenance schedules based on site traffic patterns

Enable Auto-Pilot from Sera > Pulse > Settings > Auto-Pilot.

Site Cleanup Automation

Pulse can automatically clean up:

• Expired transients
• Orphaned post metadata
• Unused tags and categories
• Spam comments older than X days
• Trashed items older than X days

Configure cleanup rules from Pulse > Cleanup > Automation.

Performance Metrics History

Pulse records performance metrics over time:

• Page load time (average, p95, p99)
• Database query time
• Memory usage
• PHP execution time

View trends and identify performance regressions from the Pulse > Performance tab.