Ambiscale

<p>Stay in control of your WordPress site with Ambiscale Activity Manager. Track and monitor your website by logging all user and system activities. Whether you’re managing a small blog or a complex WooCommerce store, this powerful plugin logs every action – from user behavior to system-level changes – giving you complete visibility directly from your WordPress dashboard.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
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<li>Track all user activities – Monitor logins, password changes, content edits, media uploads, and more. Keep a clear record of all key actions to stay informed and in control.</li>
<li>System event logging – Automatically capture system-level actions like WP-CLI commands, plugin installations, auto-updates, and changes to site-wide settings. Stay ahead of unexpected issues.</li>
<li>Centralized log dashboard – Filter, search, and manage logs easily from your WordPress admin panel. Choose between file or database storage based on your performance and backup needs.</li>
<li>Automated & manual log cleanup – Logs auto-delete after 30 days – or clear them manually beforehand to keep it clean. </li>
<li>Readable error logs – View error logs in a clean, readable format right within your dashboard – no need to dig through raw files or external tools.</li>
<li>Built-in support for popular plugins – Automatically capture plugin-specific activities from tools like WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, and more. Log key actions such as setting changes, form updates or price adjustments – helping you track who made changes, what was changed, and when.</li>
<li>Site health insights – Stay ahead of problems by tracking site health and identifying technical issues before they impact performance or visitors.</li>
<li>Anti-spam filters – Prevent log clutter by filtering out repetitive or irrelevant actions, keeping your logs clean and focused.</li>
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<h3>Why choose an Ambiscale Activity Manager?</h3>
<p>Centralized monitoring: View all user and system actions in one unified dashboard.<br />
Performance-first design: Lightweight and optimized to minimize impact on your site speed.<br />
Smart integration: Seamless compatibility with essential WordPress plugins — no setup needed.</p>


Ambiscale Activity Manager

Monitor your website by logging all activities - from user behavior to system-level changes - giving you complete visibility directly from dashboard.

Pierre Lannoy

Hosterra

<p><strong>Capture and log events, metrics and traces on your site. Make WordPress observable – finally!</strong></p>
<p>De-facto standard stack for WordPress observability, <strong>DecaLog</strong> provides reliable and powerful logging, monitoring and tracing features for WordPress core, PHP, database, plugins and themes.</p>
<p><strong>DecaLog</strong> captures events generated by WordPress core, PHP, database, plugins and themes, collates metrics and KPIs and follows traces of the full WordPress execution. It has the ability to enrich these events, metrics and traces with many details regarding their triggering, before storing them in WordPress database or passing them to external services.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to use external services, <strong>DecaLog</strong> provides the tools to leverage all the benefits of observability right in the WordPress admin dashboard. It supports multisite logs delegation and contains many features to help to protect personal information (user pseudonymization, IP obfuscation, etc.).</p>
<p>For a full list of supported – internal or third-party – services please, jump to the official <a href="https://perfops.one/decalog#services" rel="nofollow ugc">supported services list</a>.</p>
<p><strong>DecaLog</strong> can be used in dev/debug phases or on production sites: it has nearly no resource impact on the server. It provides an extensive set of WP-CLI commands to help operations too.</p>
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<p><strong>DecaLog</strong> is part of <a href="https://perfops.one/" rel="nofollow ugc">PerfOps One</a>, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance.</p>
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<h4>Developers</h4>
<p>If you’re a plugins / themes developer and want to take advantage of the logging features of DecaLog, there’s a <a href="https://decalog.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">DecaLog SDK</a> for you.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Just use the support section of this plugin page.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin, as any piece of software, is neither compliant nor non-compliant with privacy laws and regulations. It is your responsibility to use it – by activating the corresponding options or services – with respect for the personal data of your users and applicable laws.</p>
<p>This plugin doesn’t set any cookie in the user’s browser.</p>
<p>This plugin may handle personally identifiable information (PII). If the GDPR or CCPA or similar regulation applies to your case, you must use the anonymization options embedded in the plugin and/or adapt your processes (consent management, security measure, treatment register, etc.).</p>
<h4>Donation</h4>
<p>If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to <a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en" rel="nofollow ugc">La Quadrature Du Net</a> or the <a href="https://www.eff.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!</p>


DecaLog

Very nice to be able to push certain events to New Relic logs. I can even see Wordfence alerts and user logins coming in which is awesome! 

Great plugin!

Capture and log events, metrics and traces on your site. Make WordPress observable - finally!

Ambiscale Activity Manager vs DecaLog