Have activated Downtime Monitoring and I am getting a lot of xmlrpc hits

Hi Domingo:

When Jetpack Monitor checks your site, we ping your site’s homepage (via a HTTP HEAD request) every five minutes.

We tentatively mark your site as down if the HTTP response code is 400 or greater, which indicates either a permissions error or a fatal code error is prohibiting your site from appearing to visitors, or we see more than 3 300-series redirects, suggesting a redirect loop, or if your site fails to respond within 20 seconds.

Once it is tentatively marked down, we then spin up two separate servers in geographically different locations from a third-party vendor to ensure the problem is not isolated to our network or the location of our primary datacenter.

If all three checks fail, we mark the site as down and notify you. We’ll continue to check the site and once we have agreement it is back online, we’ll send you the all-clear notice.

We don’t ping the XML-RPC file, though – so I would ask that you get those logs from your hosting provider showing the hits to XML-RPC and send us an email via our contact form so we can analyze the issue and help with that other error message you’re getting when trying to change those settings. You can contact us here:

https://jetpack.com/contact-support/

Since you can’t attach a file to that form, just tell us you have the logs to send us and we’ll let you know how to send them to us. Or, you can upload them to a service like Dropbox and put the link to the log in your message to us.

Let us know if you have any questions, otherwise we’ll wait to hear from you via our contact form.

Thanks!