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WordPress

WordPress monitoring

Instrument and monitor your Wordpress websites instantly
Interactive dashboards for enhanced performance monitoring
Faster problem resolution on performance and engagement issues
Set up alerts for your critical performance metrics

Get real-time context into your WordPress websites

New Relic’s WordPress monitoring integration allows you to gain instant visibility into your website or application’s key performance indicators. Dive deep into your site's performance, user engagement, and more with custom dashboards. Run uptime checks automatically and benchmark your performance against competitors. Whether you’re trying to diagnose an outage or improve UX, you can rely on New Relic’s WordPress PHP monitoring dashboard to guide you to the source of the issue.

Interactive dashboards for enhanced performance monitoring

Instantly visualize your WordPress uptime and Lighthouse metrics
Get alerts on spikes in response times
Customize your WordPress metric visualizations using SQL
Ditch manual one-off snapshots and automate your performance checks

Quickstart
Integration Features

dashboards

WordPress quickstart contains 1 dashboard. These interactive visualizations let you easily explore your data, understand context, and resolve problems faster.

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How to use
WordPress quickstart integration

Step 1

Instrument your app

To start monitoring your app, install the New Relic PHP agent. No matter where your app or service is deployed, you can follow the install path. Supported instrumentation methods include CLI, tar archive, package manager, Docker, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.

To get a more comprehensive view across your system, including infrastructure and logs, check out the guided install, which auto-discovers your environment and walks you through a recommended setup.

Step 2

Explore the monitoring dashboard

Once your app is instrumented, you’ll automatically get a pre-built interactive dashboard. Get a clear overview of transactions, errors, and virtual machines. You can also see related metrics for infrastructure, database, real-user monitoring, and errors. This allows you to track, debug, and troubleshoot faster.

Step 3

Get deeper insights with our APM tool

Level up your observability with a unified view of telemetry across your development and application stack. With New Relic APM 360, you can go from an estate-wide view of system health to tracing the path of any service request. With integrated infra, logs, alerts, SLOs, and vulnerabilities, you can quickly discover and fix issues before your users notice.

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Monitoring WordPress & Fixing issues

Monitoring WordPress is critical to creating efficient websites, blogs, and apps. Download the New Relic WordPress quickstart to track your key metrics and improve performance. Ingest your first 100GB of telemetry data for free.

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FAQs

What is WordPress monitoring, and why is it important?

WordPress monitoring involves tracking WordPress websites' performance, security, and overall health. It is crucial for identifying issues, ensuring uptime, and providing a seamless user experience.

What aspects of WordPress websites should I monitor?

Here are some key metrics to monitor WordPress performance:

Page Load Time: This is one of the most critical metrics. Users expect websites to load quickly. Slow-loading pages lead to high bounce rates and dissatisfied visitors.
Time to First Byte (TTFB): TTFB measures the time the server takes to respond to a request. A lower TTFB indicates a faster-loading website. It's influenced by server performance, web hosting, and website configuration.
Requests and Page Size: Monitor the number of requests your website makes to the server and the total page size. Too many requests or a large page size can slow down your website.
Database Queries: WordPress websites rely on databases. Monitoring these queries will optimize your website's performance.
Server CPU and Memory Usage: Keep an eye on your server's CPU and memory usage. High usage indicates that your server might need an upgrade to handle the traffic efficiently.
Plugin Performance: Some plugins significantly impact your website's speed. Monitor the performance of plugins and deactivate or replace any that are resource-intensive.

How can I monitor server resource usage for my WordPress site?

Server monitoring tools like New Relic can help you monitor server resource usage, including CPU, memory, disk space, and network activity.

What are some best practices for WordPress monitoring?

WordPress monitoring is crucial for ensuring the performance, security, and reliability of your website. Here are some best practices to follow for effective WordPress monitoring:

Setting up alerts: Configure alerts and notifications for critical events and performance thresholds. Ensure that the right personnel are notified promptly in case of issues.
Regular audits and reviews: Conduct regular audits of your website's configuration, security settings, and monitoring tools. Stay updated with the latest WordPress updates, security patches, and best practices.
Scalability and resource usage: Monitor server resource utilization, including CPU, memory, and disk space. Ensure that your hosting environment can handle traffic spikes and scaling requirements.

Regular monitoring and proactive management are key to ensuring the long-term success of your WordPress site.

Why monitor WordPress?

WordPress is an open source software used for creating a website, blog, or app. It is a content management system with a plugin architecture and a template system known as Themes. New Relic WordPress quickstart empowers you to monitor the performance metrics of your WordPress via our PHP agent.

WordPress quickstart highlights

The New Relic WordPress quickstart has the following features: Dashboards: Proactively monitor metrics like total visitor time series, device types used, users’ top 5 operating systems, web transaction time, and database call counts. Alerts: Get instant alerts like Apdex score, memory usage, transaction errors, and CPU utilization.

New Relic + WordPress = Optimum performance monitoring

Monitor WordPress performance with our PHP agent. The integration allows you to track the time spent within each WordPress hook, plugin, and theme. You can control which WordPress-specific metrics your app sends to New Relic by using the PHP agent's ini setting newrelic.framework.WordPress.hooks.

The dashboards provide interactive visualizations to explore the total visitor time series, device types used, users’ top 5 operating systems, web transaction time, and database call counts. With real user monitoring (RUM), New Relic measures the overall time to load an entire webpage and provides actionable insights into real users' experiences on your WordPress website. Install the New Relic WordPress quickstart today to instantly monitor WordPress key performance indicators with our PHP agent. The quickstart is the key to a seamless WordPress uptime monitoring.

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Emil Hammarstrand

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