Features

Intelligent Error Engine

FaultPilot captures the failure surfaces that actually break WordPress sites and normalizes them into a single signal stream — every event fingerprinted, deduplicated and sampled so a flood of errors becomes one clean record instead of a log firehose.

• PHP errors — fatals, warnings, notices and deprecations from the error handler and shutdown
• Database errors — query failures with statement type and first table (never full SQL payloads)
• REST failures — failed route callbacks across the REST API
• Outbound HTTP failures — API calls that fail or time out, attributed to the caller
• Cron problems — missed schedules, duplicate events, Action Scheduler backlog
• Mail failures — wp_mail failures that silently swallow password resets and orders
• Admin JavaScript errors — console errors that make wp-admin misbehave

Incident management & root cause analysis

Related errors merge into incidents with a real lifecycle — open, investigating, resolved, reopened. Each incident carries its evidence: affected component, recent changes, occurrence patterns and related failures.

The Root Cause Analyzer weighs that evidence — change/component match, temporal proximity, occurrence spikes — and states a primary suspect with an explicit confidence tier: Strong correlation, Likely cause, Possible cause, or Insufficient evidence. It shows the factors behind the verdict, so you can disagree with data instead of hunches.

Prevention engine & explainable risk

Hourly sweeps watch the trends that precede real failures: rising error rates, cron backlog growth, autoloaded option bloat, memory trajectory, REST and mail failure streaks, SSL expiry, disk pressure and checkout deterioration. When a trend crosses its threshold, you get a preventive alert — before the incident, not after it.

The risk model produces six component scores — reliability, updates, database, performance, compatibility, security — and every factor behind every score is visible. You can always ask why the number moved.

Database, Performance & Cron Doctors

Each “doctor” is a specialist view with a strict workflow: safe analysis first, explanation second, snapshot before action, explicit confirmation, then verification after execution. The Database Doctor never deletes table data automatically — you decide, with evidence in front of you.

• Database Doctor — table sizes, autoloaded option top offenders, transient buildup, orphaned meta
• Performance Doctor — memory headroom, autoload weight, measured slow cues
• Cron Doctor — duplicate events, stuck schedules, missed runs, Action Scheduler depth

API & Webhook Doctor

Modern WordPress sites depend on dozens of outbound calls — payment gateways, CRM sync, webhooks, license checks. When any of them fail, the symptom usually shows up somewhere else entirely: a stuck order, a missed email, a queue that never drains.

The API/Webhook Doctor attributes outbound HTTP failures and webhook problems to the caller, correlates them with incidents, and shows failure rates and latency patterns per endpoint — so “checkout sometimes hangs” becomes “gateway X fails 8% of the time since Tuesday’s update”.

Change timeline & update safety

Most WordPress incidents start with a change. FaultPilot records plugin, theme and core updates, activations and config changes on a timeline — and takes an automatic recovery point immediately before every update. When RCA correlates an incident with a change, the pre-update point is already there.

• Automatic pre-update snapshots of the plugin set
• One-click rollback to a captured point
• Config change tracking — permalink changes, option flips, activation events

Smart alerts, reports & activity logs

Alerts reach you without drowning you: deduplication merges repeated signals, throttling prevents alert storms, minimum-severity filters keep the noise down, and quiet hours respect your nights. The dashboard notification center and a branded HTML email channel share the same rules.

Every incident, treatment and recovery action is written to an audit-logged activity timeline. Structured and printable reports export the full picture for clients and post-mortems.