It means there isn’t current traffic activity on your site…
I just went to your site, so you should be seeing my visit in the activity log if there hasn’t been any other activity, and assuming you enabled the Live Activity option in the Wordfence settings.
thank you for replying.
That can’t be accurate because the whole reason I installed wordfence is because the site is being accessed by crawlers from all over the world every few seconds and maxing out the bandwidth allocation of the account. I went to Live activity and there is CONSTANT activity even though that message says idle. So what am I missing?
Is Live Activity Logging actually enabled in the Wordfence options?
Specifically which setting are you referring to? Live Activity is not a specific option on the Options page.
The word “Idle” is probably a poor choice of words. It simply means waiting, running.
@bluebearmedia, if Live Traffic is disabled, it will say “Disabled”, not “Idle”.
@bluesteam, you will notice, that it states that “Live Activity” is idle.
It is not WordFence that is idle. Just the status screen.
The “Live Traffic” screen will default update itself by re-reading the log every 2 seconds (you can change that interval in Options)..
In between each “update” it just claims to be “Idle”. It means nothing.
If your option “Pause live updates when window loses focus” is set, when you click into another window, Live Traffic will stop updating itself.
The status will then show as “Paused” instead of “Idle”.
Just forget about the word “Idle”. It does not mean that WordFence is idle. Only that the updating Live Traffic screen is waiting for it’s next update to happen.
@crudhuner that was very helpful 🙂 Thank you.
once thing that is concerning me though but maybe for another thread is that the live activity is constantly being updated by IP’s from Russia, Vietnam, China, Ukraine and the list goes on. Isn’t the firewall supposed to be blocking these things???
The firewall normally only blocks actions that are considered invalid/illegal/dangerous.
So 10,000 IPs can try to access your wp-login, or scan for various vulnerable URLs, but as long as they are not doing something known to be illegal or invalid (like trying to login with invalid usernames), WordFence would not know to block them.
It will not block actions that are valid, of which there can be hundreds/thousands of robotic visits every day. Scammers/hackers abound in the world. But how would it know that you don’t like them, without being told. What is an invalid country to you can be perfectly valid to other sites.
If you mean block certain countries in their entirety, that is for WordFence only a “Premium” feature. There are other things that can block countries, tho.
Personally, I like my Live traffic to stay more quiet, so I block many bad visitors, such as all the incessant wp-login.php or xmlrpc.php visitors before they ever reach WordPress/WordPress and show up in Life Traffic. Earlier in the connection path.
But that requires using other methods. Further “left” in the path. Firewall, Apache mod_security, Apache htaccess, ..
The “Wordfence Live Activity” bar only shows the scan activity, if there isn’t any scan running, it will show “Idle”, also it switches to “Idle” after an hour of no change in activity. Other activities might be added in future releases but for now it only shows scan activity.
Thanks.
Dear all, I have the same ‘problem’ with ‘Wordfence Live Activity: idle’.
When I go to the dashboard it says: “Last scan completed: 28 August 2017 00:42”, while it actually is 29 august 2017 00:22 (local times).
Before there always was some scan activity where they show the used Mb’s and such.
It frightens me a wee bit!
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