Title: Monitoring WordPress — logs
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Monitoring WordPress — logs

 *  [thejoeyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejoeyo/)
 * (@thejoeyo)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/monitoring-wordpress-logs/)
 * Hi,
    I’ve recently taken over management of a few Ubuntu servers, each with about
   6-12 WordPress sites installed on them, and I’m currently trying to establish
   a method to monitor the sites for issues. I’ve been looking through the documentation,
   and I haven’t found much guidance on monitoring the sites. I realize that there
   are plugins that accomplish this, but I’d prefer to use log files, scripts, etc.
   I’ve noticed that there is a logs folder in the staging directory, but ours just
   has “index.html” and a .svn folder. I’m not really seeing much in the way of 
   logging here.
 * Is there a way to turn on additional logging, to record things like, users that
   log into the management page, when files were last changed, if an update is available
   for plugins or WordPress, etc.?
 * Alternatively, if there is a better way to monitor WordPress, I’m new and open
   to exploring alternatives. Thanks!

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 *  [Tim Nash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tnash/)
 * (@tnash)
 * Spam hunter
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/monitoring-wordpress-logs/#post-6079418)
 * By default WordPress doesn’t provide that level of logging, however that is what
   plugins are for, so you will need to have a hunt for one that suits your need.
   If you are managing multiple sites across multiple server, you might either want
   to find one that writes separate files into a centralised server, or it might
   be easier to look for something that actually adds events into syslog depending
   on how you plan to evaluate them.

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## Tags

 * [logging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/logging/)
 * [Logs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/logs/)
 * [monitoring](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/monitoring/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [Tim Nash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tnash/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/monitoring-wordpress-logs/#post-6079418)
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