Perfbase for WordPress

Perfbase profiles WordPress applications and sends performance traces to the Perfbase APM platform. It captures request lifecycle timing, WordPress context, selected metadata, and trace data through the native Perfbase PHP extension and the shared Perfbase PHP SDK.

This plugin is a Software-as-a-Service integration. It requires a Perfbase account, a Perfbase API key, and the native ext-perfbase PHP extension. The plugin does not submit traces until profiling is enabled and an API key is configured.

The plugin can profile:

Standard HTTP requests.

Admin requests when enabled.

AJAX requests.

WordPress cron runs.

WP-CLI commands when enabled.

WordPress, theme, plugin, REST, and WooCommerce context when available.

For privacy and cardinality control, request URLs are stored without query strings. Important WordPress query parameters are stored separately where useful.

External Services This plugin connects to the Perfbase APM platform, an external application performance monitoring service, when profiling is enabled.

Service name: Perfbase APM platform and the configured Perfbase ingest API endpoint. The default endpoint is https://ingress.perfbase.cloud.

Service policies: Perfbase Privacy Policy and Perfbase Terms.

When data is sent: trace data is sent only after a Perfbase API key is configured, profiling is enabled, the request passes the configured sampling rate, include/exclude filters, user-agent exclusions, request-type toggles, and HTTP status-code rules. For HTTP, AJAX, cron, and WP-CLI lifecycles, submission normally happens at the end of the lifecycle or during shutdown. The plugin does not submit profiling traces while profiling is disabled or while no API key is configured.