WebOrbiton – Documentation

Overview

The Status Monitor system provides real-time HTTP status checks for any number of websites. It saves uptime history to a JSON file, automatically fills gaps in monitoring, and generates a modern dashboard using index.php.

            Main components:

            – check.php – performs website checks and updates the JSON history

            – index.php – displays the live status dashboard

            – config.php – general configuration & SEO settings

            – sites.php – list of monitored websites

            – status.json – automatically generated monitoring log

check.php – Monitoring Engine

This script performs all uptime checks. It sends an HTTP HEAD request to each website listed in sites.php and stores the results in status.json.

Features

Checks HTTP status of every site (Up, Down, Maintenance)
Automatically fills missing measurements if cron skipped
Stores data in status.json
Automatically removes history older than X hours
Highly lightweight – requires no database

Requirements

PHP 7.4 or newer
cURL enabled
Cron job every N minutes (recommended every 2 minutes)

Cron Example

* * * * * php /path/to/check.php > /dev/null 2>&1

config.php – Configuration

This file defines site branding, SEO templates, and monitoring period settings.

Includes:

Website/project name
Status page metadata
SEO templates (dynamic title + description)
Monitoring period for calculations

Example

$siteName = "Example";
$siteStatus = "Status Monitor";
$monitoringPeriod = "3 hours";

sites.php – Website List

This file contains an array of websites to be monitored. Each entry must include a human-readable name and a full URL.

return [
    [
        'name' => 'My Website',
        'url'  => 'https://example.com',
    ],
];

index.php – Status Dashboard

This file generates the entire status web interface. It loads status.json, computes uptime %, detects outages, and visualizes the last 6 hours of data using Chart.js.

Main features

Modern, responsive uptime dashboard
Real-time uptime charts powered by Chart.js
SEO-friendly with dynamic meta tags and JSON-LD
Status badges (Operational, Degraded, Outage)
Auto-refresh every 60 seconds

Charts

Line charts display values:

1 = Up
0.5 = Maintenance
0 = Down

Data Storage (status.json)

All monitoring data is stored under status.json in a simple key/value structure:

{
    "My Website": {
        "2025-12-02T10:20:00Z": "up",
        "2025-12-02T10:22:00Z": "down"
    }
}

Easy to parse, easy to back up, no database required.