Get Jetpack Monitor status is a WordPress ability from Jetpack — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Get Jetpack Monitor status

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Jetpack Backup & Site Management jetpack-monitor/get-monitor-status

Report whether Jetpack's Downtime Monitor is active, connected, and whether the current user gets downtime alerts.

Requires the Jetpack plugin on WordPress 6.9+. Abilities are registered by several bundled Jetpack packages (automattic/jetpack-backup, jetpack-connection, jetpack-forms, jetpack-stats) plus the main plugin's own registrars for Related Posts, Shortlinks, Sitemaps, Newsletter/Subscriptions, and Monitor. Permission requirements vary by ability — most gate on 'manage_options', 'jetpack_admin_page', or 'view_stats', while Forms abilities use 'edit_pages'. Backup abilities only register when a Backup product/plan is active; Sitemaps, Monitor, and Newsletter abilities only register when their respective module is turned on.

What it does

This ability returns the current state of Jetpack's Downtime Monitor: whether the module is active, whether the current user is connected to Jetpack, whether that user currently receives downtime email notifications, and the timestamp of the most recent up/down status transition (or null if none recorded). It makes two calls to the remote Monitor service (one of which is cached for ten minutes) and fails with jetpack_monitor_not_connected if the current user isn't connected, or jetpack_monitor_service_unreachable if the remote service can't be reached. This ability only registers while the Monitor module is active.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Is Jetpack Monitor active on my site, and am I set up to receive downtime alerts?"

Returns

An object with module_active (boolean), user_connected (boolean), notifications_enabled (boolean), and last_status_change (a UTC timestamp string, or null).

Permission

The current user must have the 'jetpack_admin_page' capability.

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