Title: Logs
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: September 20, 2023
Last modified: December 29, 2025

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#  Logs

Many different types of logs are available for WordPress and Node.js applications
on the VIP Platform. Logs are a useful reference for debugging, hardening security,
and incident investigation. 

 * 
   ### 󠀁[Audit Log](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/audit-log/)󠁿
   
 * The Audit Log in the VIP Dashboard provides an audit trail of all management 
   actions for an organization or an application.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[WP-CLI Commands log](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/wp-cli-commands/)󠁿
   
 * The WP-CLI Commands panel in the VIP Dashboard displays a log of all WP-CLI commands
   that were run on an environment using the VIP-CLI vip wp command.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Runtime Logs ](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/runtime-logs/)󠁿
   
 * Runtime Logs provides aggregated, near real-time application logs including PHP
   error logs for WordPress applications and output sent to stdout or stderr for
   Node.js applications.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Log Shipping](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/log-shipping/)󠁿
   
 * HTTP request Log Shipping provides logs for each request made to VIP’s edge network
   of servers for an environment.
 * 
   ### 󠀁[HTTP request edge logs](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/http-request-edge/)󠁿
   
 * HTTP request edge logs show data about each request that was made to VIP’s edge
   network of servers for a site. To access HTTP request edge logs for an environment,
   enable Log Shipping in the VIP Dashboard. The Log Shipping feature automatically
   ships logs to a configured cloud bucket on a regular cadence. Shipped logs are
   delivered as a series of gzipped JSON files. An example JSON-formatted record
   in a shipped HTTP request edge log file: Description of fields Field Description
   asn The Autonomous System Number (ASN) of the remote_addr IP address body_bytes_sent
   Total number of bytes sent to the client cache_segment…
 * 
   ### 󠀁[HTTP request origin logs](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/http-request-origin/)󠁿
   
 * HTTP request logs show data about each request that bypasses VIP’s edge network
   of servers and reaches a site’s origin server. To access HTTP request origin 
   logs, enable Log Shipping for an environment in the VIP Dashboard. The Log Shipping
   feature automatically ships logs to a configured cloud bucket on a regular cadence.
   Shipped logs are delivered as a series of gzipped JSON files. An example JSON-
   formatted record in a shipped HTTP request origin log file: Description of fields
   Field Description body_bytes_sent The number of bytes (excluding headers) sent
   in the HTTP response body datacenter An abbreviated value of the…
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Slow Query Logs](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/slow-query/)󠁿
   
 * Slow query Logs provide the ability to identify queries made by an application
   that take an unusually long time to execute. 
 * 
   ### 󠀁[Analyze shipped logs](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/analyze-shipped-logs/)󠁿
   
 * Analyzing shipped log files can provide crucial insight into an application’s
   quality of performance and the ways users are interacting with site content. 
   The JSON-formatted log files are human-readable, but the logged data can also
   be ingested into a log management solution application to provide additional 
   analysis, visualization, and understanding. Some common log management applications
   for ingesting shipped data, depending on the type of logged data and desired 
   purpose: GoAccess GoAccess is an open source tool that can be used to visualize
   data for HTTP request logs from edge and origin to can gain deeper insights into
   an application. For…

Last updated: December 29, 2025