Title: Logs and performance monitoring
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: November 25, 2024
Last modified: October 29, 2025

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#  Logs and performance monitoring

Access to several different types of logs and dashboards for performance monitoring
are available to you throughout the development process.

## VIP Platform Changelog

Stay informed of updates made to the infrastructure of the VIP Platform and the 
codebases for the VIP Dashboard, VIP-CLI, and VIP MU plugins.

[Go to the **VIP Platform Changelog**](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelogs/)

## HTTP request Log Shipping

HTTP request Log Shipping provides request logs for an environment and can be analyzed
with a variety of tools such as GoAccess, Splunk, and more. Information in shipped
logs includes page generation times, response codes, and cache status for requests.

HTTP request Log Shipping is not active by default, and must be enabled in the VIP
Dashboard for an environment.

[Read more about **HTTP request Log Shipping**](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/log-shipping/)

## New Relic

New Relic is an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that is available 
for all WordPress environments and Node.js environments. New Relic can collect data
for current and historical average page generation times and capture traces of slow
requests and much more.

You can enable or disable New Relic for an environment and manage user access in
the VIP Dashboard.

[Read more about New Relic for environments](https://docs.wpvip.com/performance/new-relic/)

## Query Monitor

Query Monitor is a developer tools panel installed on all WordPress environments
by VIP MU plugins. Query Monitor is useful for identifying and debugging database
queries, PHP errors, warnings and notices, hooks and actions, block editor blocks,
enqueued scripts and stylesheets, HTTP API calls, and more.

To access Query Monitor for a site, you must have a `view_query_monitor` capability
assigned to your WordPress user role.

[Read more about Query Monitor](https://docs.wpvip.com/performance/query-monitor/)

## Runtime Logs

Runtime Logs are available for WordPress and Node.js environments. For WordPress
applications, Runtime Logs reports PHP errors including fatals, warnings, and notices.
For Node.js applications, Runtime Logs reports output sent to `stdout` or `stderr`.

Logs are retrievable in the **Runtime Logs** panel of the VIP Dashboard or with 
the VIP-CLI Runtime Logs command.

[Read more about **Runtime Logs**](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/runtime-logs/)

## Slow Query Logs

Slow Query Logs provide the ability to identify queries made by an application that
take an unusually long time to execute. The **Slow Query Logs** panel, located in
the VIP Dashboard, displays up to 100 of the most recent slow queries that have 
occurred on an environment. Details related to each slow query are provided to assist
you with investigating the source of a slow query and improve its performance.

[Read more about **Slow Query Logs**](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/slow-query/)

## Insights & metrics data

The **Insights & Metrics** panel in the VIP Dashboard displays a wide variety of
data that provides insights into the performance, health, and usage of an environment.

Available data includes the types and amounts of HTTP response status codes that
are returned by the origin servers and edge cache servers, the number of currently
active PHP processes, page cache hit rate, object cache hit rate, the efficiency
of the queries made to the database by the application code, and more.

[Read more about **Insights & Metrics**](https://docs.wpvip.com/performance/insights-metrics/)

Last updated: October 29, 2025

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