Issues Tracker vs Query Monitor

Issues Tracker allows you view and search WordPress logs, receive security advice, track 404 errors, and view your server settings. We’ve designed the Issues Tracker plugin with accessibility and simplicity in mind. Say goodbye to the hassle of reading and searching through the debug.log file on your server. With the Issues Tracker, you can access and search logs directly within your CMS, making them easily readable and searchable. Additionally, our plugin provides email notifications for various error events and covers more issues than a typical WP health checker. Enhance your website’s security and performance with these key features: Debug Log Viewer Effortlessly view notices, warnings, and errors from the WordPress debug.log file in a user-friendly table format. Utilize advanced search options (by error type, line, and file) and pagination for quick and convenient log management. WordPress 404 Errors Identify and list all 404 (page not found) errors on your website, and configure email notifications for these events. For example, receive email alerts for every 404 event. Advisor Receive expert recommendations on server and site settings to boost your website’s speed and security. Get notified via email if your server’s condition deteriorates. Server info Keep track of all your server settings in one centralized location. Issues Tracker automatically parses the phpinfo() output, providing you with comprehensive server information. No need to dig into the server configuration files manually – everything is neatly displayed for you. Website Checks Our plugin evaluates your website based on various criteria, including: – Checking if the database username used in wp-config.php is widely used. – Verifying the security of the database password in wp-config.php. – Examining the state of the WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY constant. – Ensuring you are not using the default database prefix. – Verifying SSL (https) encryption status. – Checking the PHP version for updates. – Confirming that the WordPress version matches the HTML code. – Checking if search engines allowed to index a website …and many more checks in future releases. Dashboard Monitor all your website’s performance and security issues conveniently from one central location. Access log file entries, server checks, and 404 error reports in a single dashboard. Tested up to WordPress Version: 6.7.1 PHP Version: 8.2.0 Issues Tracker helps monitor WordPress logs, track 404 errors, view server settings, and receive security advice Notice: Transition to Debug Log Viewer We are no longer maintaining Issues Tracker as we’ve launched a better plugin for debugging: Debug Log Viewer. To continue receiving updates, new features, and support, please: 1. Uninstall Issues Tracker. 2. Install Debug Log Viewer All premium features from Issues Tracker are included in Debug Log Viewer at no cost. Thank you for your trust and support! If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact us via Email. Pro Features Receive Email notifications when the Advisor module detects security issues Get Email notifications in case of 404 request hourly or once per day Get Email notifications with new entries in the debug.log to keep you inform about problems on the site Enjoy priority email support Use cases Debugging WordPress Sites: Developers can use the plugin to identify, track, and resolve bugs in WordPress themes or plugins. This is crucial for maintaining site performance, security, and overall functionality. Monitoring Website Health: Website administrators and webmasters can see advice and hints how to improve performance and stability of their website. This proactive monitoring helps in maintaining a smooth and efficient operation of the website, ensuring a better user experience. Real-Time 404 Error Detection: When a visitor encounters a 404 error (page not found) on your website, whether due to a broken link in a post, page, or image, the “Issues Tracker” plugin immediately captures this URL. It presents these 404 URLs in an organized table, allowing for swift review and rechecking with just one click. For Pro plan users, the plugin offers additional convenience by sending instant email notifications whenever a new 404 error is detected, ensuring you’re always up-to-date and can address these issues promptly to maintain a smooth user experience on your site.

Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce. It enables debugging of database queries, PHP errors, hooks and actions, block editor blocks, enqueued scripts and stylesheets, HTTP API calls, and more. It includes some advanced features such as debugging of Ajax calls, REST API calls, user capability checks, and full support for block themes and full site editing. It includes the ability to narrow down much of its output by plugin or theme, allowing you to quickly determine poorly performing plugins, themes, or functions. Query Monitor focuses heavily on presenting its information in a useful manner, for example by showing aggregate database queries grouped by the plugins, themes, or functions that are responsible for them. It adds an admin toolbar menu showing an overview of the current page, with complete debugging information shown in panels once you select a menu item. Query Monitor supports versions of WordPress up to three years old, and PHP version 7.4 or higher. For complete information, please see the Query Monitor website. Here’s an overview of what’s shown for each page load: Database queries, including notifications for slow, duplicate, or erroneous queries. Allows filtering by query type (SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, etc), responsible component (plugin, theme, WordPress core), and calling function, and provides separate aggregate views for each. The template filename, the complete template hierarchy, and names of all template parts that were loaded or not loaded (for block themes and classic themes). PHP errors presented nicely along with their responsible component and call stack, and a visible warning in the admin toolbar. Usage of “Doing it Wrong” or “Deprecated” functionality in the code on your site. Blocks and associated properties within post content and within full site editing (FSE). Matched rewrite rules, associated query strings, and query vars. Enqueued scripts and stylesheets, along with their dependencies, dependents, and alerts for broken dependencies. Language settings and loaded translation files (MO files and JSON files) for each text domain. HTTP API requests, with response code, responsible component, and time taken, with alerts for failed or erroneous requests. User capability checks, along with the result and any parameters passed to the capability check. Environment information, including detailed information about PHP, the database, WordPress, and the web server. The values of all WordPress conditional functions such as is_single(), is_home(), etc. Transients that were updated. Usage of switch_to_blog() and restore_current_blog() on Multisite installations. In addition: Whenever a redirect occurs, Query Monitor adds an HTTP header containing the call stack, so you can use your favourite HTTP inspector or browser developer tools to trace what triggered the redirect. The response from any jQuery-initiated Ajax request on the page will contain various debugging information in its headers. PHP errors also get output to the browser’s developer console. The response from an authenticated WordPress REST API request will contain an overview of performance information and PHP errors in its headers, as long as the authenticated user has permission to view Query Monitor’s output. An an enveloped REST API request will include even more debugging information in the qm property of the response. By default, Query Monitor’s output is only shown to Administrators on single-site installations, and Super Admins on Multisite installations. In addition to this, you can set an authentication cookie which allows you to view Query Monitor output when you’re not logged in (or if you’re logged in as a non-Administrator). See the Settings panel for details. Browser extension Query Monitor is also available as an optional browser dev tools extension. This is an alternative to using the in-page panel that gets output into the admin toolbar. Using the browser extension has some advantages over the in-page panel: The Query Monitor panel doesn’t take up space within the page you are inspecting The panel can be resized, undocked, and moved around like any other developer tools panel Information about the Query Monitor browser extension can be found here. Other Plugins I maintain several other plugins for developers. Check them out: User Switching provides instant switching between user accounts in WordPress. WP Crontrol lets you view and control what’s happening in the WP-Cron system Thanks The time that I spend maintaining this plugin and others is in part sponsored by: Automattic ServMask WP Staging All my kind sponsors on GitHub Privacy Statement Query Monitor is private by default and always will be. It does not persistently store any of the data that it collects. It does not send data to any third party, nor does it include any third party resources. Query Monitor’s full privacy statement can be found here. Accessibility Statement Query Monitor aims to be fully accessible to all of its users. Query Monitor’s full accessibility statement can be found here.