About this plugin
Talking Monkey Insights gives you a site health snapshot in your WordPress admin — and exposes the same data via a secure REST API so you can monitor multiple sites from your own dashboard.
What you see in WP Admin
- Updates — count + list of plugins needing updates, theme update count, core update status
- Security — threats blocked, login attempts blocked, last scan results (auto-detected from WordFence or Defender)
- Backups — last backup time, backup count, next scheduled backup (auto-detected from UpdraftPlus or Snapshot)
- SSL — days until expiry with color-coded status
- REST API — endpoint URL + your API key + enable/disable toggle
Why the REST API matters
If you manage multiple WordPress sites — agency, freelance portfolio, internal IT — built-in WP Site Health is shallow and ManageWP/MainWP require connecting to their proprietary dashboards. This plugin gives you a clean, secure REST endpoint at /wp-json/tm/v1/stats that you can hit from your own dashboard, BI tool, Slack bot, or whatever you already use.
The endpoint requires an API key (auto-generated on activation; regeneratable). No other authentication.
Multi-ecosystem detection
Most site monitoring plugins lock you into one ecosystem. This one auto-detects whichever security and backup plugin you have installed:
- Security: WordFence or Defender
- Backups: UpdraftPlus or Snapshot
Don’t have either installed? The corresponding section shows a neutral “no supported plugin detected” state. No upsells, no recommendations to install anything.
Privacy
This plugin does not send any data outside of your WordPress site without your explicit configuration. No telemetry. No analytics.
No phone-home.
The REST API endpoint is enabled by default but can be disabled in settings. When enabled, access requires an API key. The plugin only responds to authenticated requests; it never proactively contacts external services.
Built by an agency that uses it
Talking Monkey hosts WordPress sites for our own clients. We built this plugin to monitor them from our internal dashboard — and made it free + open source so other agencies and site owners can do the same. We need it to be trustworthy because we install it on every site we host.