Lars Koudal

cleverplugins

Grumpy AI Gate helps you stay in control as AI features spread across WordPress. It observes and intercepts outbound HTTP that other code on your site already initiates (plugins, themes, or core)—so you can see which plugin was involved, how much activity you are seeing (including helpful estimates), and optionally stop unwanted WordPress AI Client traffic for specific plugins. This plugin does not call external AI APIs for its own dashboard, analytics, or licensing. Nothing is sent to us or to a third-party analytics service.
Why use it
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<li>Visibility — Dashboard summaries, a per-plugin usage table, and a request log so surprises become visible early.</li>
<li>Spend awareness — When other software calls paid APIs, usage adds up. Logging helps you notice patterns before invoices or quotas become a problem.</li>
<li>Safer sharing — Knowing what leaves your server makes it easier to decide what belongs in prompts and what does not.</li>
<li>Optional blocking — For paths that use WordPress’s AI Client, you can block generations from selected plugins under Grumpy AI Gate → Settings (save to apply).</li>
</ul>
How it works
<ul>
<li>When the WordPress AI Client is available, the plugin records those requests from core lifecycle hooks (other code still drives the actual generation).</li>
<li>For HTTP fallback, Grumpy AI Gate hooks WordPress’s HTTP API (for example <code>pre_http_request</code>) to inspect requests that are already in flight. If a URL matches built-in recognition rules for major AI providers, a log row can be stored. Grumpy AI Gate does not open those connections for its own purposes—it only filters and classifies traffic initiated elsewhere on the site.</li>
<li>HTTP fallback does not block outbound API calls in the current release—it is there so you still get visibility when plugins talk to providers directly over HTTP instead of (or in addition to) AI Client flows.</li>
</ul>
Compatibility
The plugin requires WordPress 7.0+ (matches Requires at least in the plugin header). On WordPress 7.x, it works with core AI Client functionality where available. Release testing included WordPress 7.0 Beta 5. HTTP fallback remains important on every supported version—it records calls to recognized provider endpoints that other plugins make directly over HTTP, which is still common alongside (or instead of) AI Client–based flows.
Privacy
Everything is stored locally in your WordPress database. There is no cloud account, no telemetry, and no third-party analytics from this plugin.
For technical details on logging, double-counting avoidance, and blocking limits, see the FAQ below.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin does not rely on third-party AI APIs, remote analytics, or any external service for its own features. All logging and settings stay on your site.
Provider names and URL patterns included with the plugin are local matching rules only. They let Grumpy AI Gate filter and classify outbound HTTP requests that plugins, themes, or WordPress core may already be sending. They are not a list of servers this plugin calls to power the admin UI or to “phone home.”
Your site may still contact third-party AI providers when you or other software use AI features—that traffic is separate from this plugin’s own network use (which does not include calling those providers for monitoring).

Grumpy AI Gate

Intercept and log AI-related HTTP from plugins/themes; optional AI Client blocking. All data stays on your server.

Pierre Lannoy

Hosterra

Capture and log events, metrics and traces on your site. Make WordPress observable – finally!
De-facto standard stack for WordPress observability, DecaLog provides reliable and powerful logging, monitoring and tracing features for WordPress core, PHP, database, plugins and themes.
DecaLog 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.
If you don’t want to use external services, DecaLog 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.).
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>.
DecaLog 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.
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DecaLog 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.
</blockquote>
<h4>Developers</h4>
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.
<h4>Support</h4>
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.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Please read carefully the FAQ at the bottom of this page before requesting support.
<h4>Privacy</h4>
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.
This plugin doesn’t set any cookie in the user’s browser.
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.).
<h4>Donation</h4>
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!

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!

Grumpy AI Gate vs DecaLog