SSL & homepage monitoring

What it does

Beyond uptime, Monitrova checks each site's SSL certificate and homepage health once a day (when enabled). These catch the slow-burning failures that don't take a site "down" but still hurt — a certificate about to expire, a page quietly returning a backend error, or an accidental noindex tag wiping you off search engines.

Tuning it

1. Enable the SSL check and set the days-before-expiry threshold when adding or editing a site.
2. Enable the homepage audit on the same screen.
3. A change in state (e.g. SSL going invalid, or a noindex appearing) opens an incident and alerts you.

SSL states

State	What it means
Valid	Trusted, matches the domain, and beyond your warning threshold.
Expiring	Valid but within your warning window (default 30 days) — renew soon.
Invalid	Expired, hostname mismatch, self-signed, or a broken chain — visitors see a browser warning.

Homepage issues

Issue	What it means
Backend error	A PHP fatal, database error or framework crash was found in the page — visitors see it too.
Blank page	The page loaded empty — often a crashing theme or plugin.
Noindex	A noindex tag/header appeared, telling search engines to drop the page.
Error status	The homepage returned a 4xx or 5xx instead of loading normally.
Maintenance mode	A maintenance/"be right back" page is showing instead of your content.

Related guides

• Add & configure a monitor
• Incidents
• SSL Expiry Checker