Title: Notify when database connection fails
Last modified: July 28, 2020

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# Notify when database connection fails

 *  [deve42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deve42/)
 * (@deve42)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/notify-when-database-connection-fails/)
 * Hi all,
 * Is there a plugin or a method to notify me when WordPress cannot connect to the
   database?
 * Thanks,
    Deve

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/notify-when-database-connection-fails/#post-13182487)
 * See if this thread points in the right direction:
    [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/239310/how-to-monitor-server-for-error-establishing-a-database-connection](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/239310/how-to-monitor-server-for-error-establishing-a-database-connection)
 *  Thread Starter [deve42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deve42/)
 * (@deve42)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/notify-when-database-connection-fails/#post-13192690)
 * Thanks but wp-content/db-error.php isn’t there anymore. Any idea where the file
   is now, or if there’s a better way to be notified?
 * Cheers,
    Deve

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## Tags

 * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)

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 * Last reply from: [deve42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deve42/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/notify-when-database-connection-fails/#post-13192690)
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