Empty catalog after a release
The homepage responds, but an important category or product is unavailable or expected content has disappeared.
Impact: customers cannot get from the catalog to the cart
Magento uptime monitoring means requesting your storefront from outside the store on a schedule, recording the status code and response time, and alerting you by email, Slack or SMS the moment a check fails. PingView adds SSL expiry and a cron heartbeat, and the optional Magento 2 module shows it all in the admin. Checkout tests on Professional run a Playwright scenario you create or import.
See what the Magento 2 module shows, how checkout monitoring walks the cart, and how cron job monitoring reports a silent scheduler.
A working homepage does not confirm checkout, catalog pages, or cron jobs are working.
The homepage responds, but an important category or product is unavailable or expected content has disappeared.
Impact: customers cannot get from the catalog to the cart
The store still responds, but the cron signal is missing. PingView detects a missing heartbeat; it does not confirm the outcome of every job.
Impact: delayed email, inventory, or order processing
The homepage returns 200, but the scenario cannot complete add-to-cart, shipping details, or payment selection.
Impact: customers cannot complete an order
The URL works, but a product page shows the wrong state, misses expected content, or loads much more slowly than usual.
Impact: an incorrect offer or a blocked purchase path
Combine availability with checkout checks, cron heartbeats, catalog content checks, and visual evidence.
Append a call to the PingView URL to the Magento cron entry. PingView alerts you when that signal does not arrive on time.
Manually create or import a Playwright scenario for add-to-cart and checkout, then PingView runs it on a schedule. Test payment steps in sandbox/test mode or stop before real payment.
Check availability and expected content on important categories or products. This detects the customer-facing outcome, not indexer state.
Add separate monitors for important store views and domains, then see their results in one dashboard.
Append the PingView URL to bin/magento cron:run — the signal is sent once the run finishes. A missing signal within the expected window triggers an alert from PingView.
Monitoring runs outside your store either way. The module only adds a PingView page to the back office — connect with one email address, or paste an API key you already have.
pingview-monitoring.zip
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6fd4f765bdc8a385f08944fb74ce131d8eae60be1bf932c908468ea06dc42c19Install with Composer
In production mode also run setup:di:compile and setup:static-content:deploy. Without Composer: unpack the ZIP into app/code and run the same three bin/magento commands.
Starter covers external availability and heartbeat monitoring. Checkout scenarios are available on Professional.
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Before you set up monitoring
A cart scenario recorded against today's store also freezes whatever is broken in it today. It is worth knowing that the checkout works correctly first, and only then posting a guard beside it.
Open the page that matches your workflow or commerce platform.
Start with an external store monitor. Then cover cron and the steps that stop sales with heartbeats and a checkout scenario.
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