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# Configure Monitoring for WordPress

> Configure GermainUX to analyze user experience, availability, performance, errors, APIs, logs, and database behavior for WordPress websites.

Components
[`Engine`](/main/germain-ux-engine)
[`JS Profiler`](/main/germain-ux-js-profiler)
[`Mobile App`](/main/germain-ux-mobile-app)
[`RPA Bot Recorder`](/main/germain-ux-rpa-bot-recorder)
[`RUM JS`](/main/germain-ux-rum-js)

Availability
2014.1 or later

> **[8. Configure Form and Workflow Monitoring](#8-configure-form-and-workflow-monitoring)**
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> Key forms and workflows

> **[23. Configure Dashboards](#23-configure-dashboards)**
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> Views for site teams

> **[24. Validate the Configuration](#24-validate-the-configuration)**
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> Confirm monitoring is active

> **[Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)**
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> Resolve WordPress setup issues

**Configuring Monitoring for WordPress with GermainUX: User Experience, Performance, and Error Analysis**

Configure GermainUX to analyze user experience, availability, performance, errors, APIs, logs, database behavior, and supporting infrastructure for WordPress websites.

## 1. Open the UX Monitoring Profile

Go to:

**Germain Workspace > Settings > Analytics > UX Monitoring Profiles**

Select the UX Monitoring Profile created for the WordPress website.

## 2. Configure Real User Monitoring

Configure the browser telemetry required for the monitoring objectives.

* User sessions
* Page views
* Navigation
* Clicks
* User interactions
* Page performance

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> * Browser performance
> * Network requests
> * JavaScript errors
> * Customer-defined events

Enable only the monitoring required for the website.

## 3. Configure Session Replay

Configure Session Replay for the selected profile.

* Session Replay enabled or disabled
* Session timeout
* Maximum recording duration
* Behavior when username changes
* IP exclusions
* Included IP ranges
* Username exclusions
* Headless-browser exclusions

Global settings are available under:

**Germain Workspace > Settings > System > UX and Session Replay Settings**

## 4. Configure Privacy

Configure masking, anonymization, and exclusions before production rollout.

* Passwords
* Authentication tokens
* Names
* Email addresses
* Phone numbers
* Addresses

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> * Account information
> * Sensitive form fields
> * Restricted content
> * URL parameters containing identifiers

Collect only information required for the monitoring use case.

## 5. Configure Click Monitoring

Monitor:

* Standard clicks
* Dead clicks
* Error clicks
* Rage clicks

Use these signals to identify:

* Unresponsive controls
* Repeated attempts
* JavaScript errors
* Navigation problems
* User frustration

## 6. Configure Performance Monitoring

Analyze:

* Page-load time
* User interaction time
* Browser processing
* Network-request duration
* Server response time
* REST API response time

Use page- and workflow-specific thresholds rather than applying one threshold to every page.

## 7. Configure JavaScript Error Monitoring

Monitor:

* JavaScript exceptions
* Browser console errors
* HTTP failures
* Failed network requests
* Resource-loading failures
* Theme-related browser issues
* Plugin-related browser issues
* Third-party script failures

Correlate errors with users, sessions, pages, interactions, browsers, and devices.

## 8. Configure Form and Workflow Monitoring

Define important WordPress workflows.

Examples include:

#### Lead Generation

Landing Page
Form
Submit
Confirmation

#### Authentication

Login
Account
Target Action

#### Registration

Registration
Confirmation
Login

#### Content Conversion

Content
Call to Action
Conversion

For each workflow, define:

* Start
* Milestones
* Completion
* Failure
* Abandonment

Analyze:

* Completion rate
* Duration
* Drop-off
* Errors
* Repeated actions
* User friction
* Performance delays

## 9. Configure REST API Monitoring — Optional

When GermainUX Engine monitors the WordPress REST API, configure:

* Endpoint
* HTTP method
* Authentication
* Headers
* Request parameters
* Timeout

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> * Expected HTTP status
> * Response validation
> * Monitoring frequency

Use read-only requests whenever practical.

## 10. Configure WordPress Log Monitoring — Optional

Configure applicable log sources.

* WordPress debug log
* PHP logs
* Web-server logs
* Plugin logs
* Integration logs

Create Rules to detect:

* PHP errors
* Plugin failures
* Authentication errors
* Application exceptions
* Integration failures
* Repeated warnings
* New error patterns

## 11. Configure Database Monitoring — Optional

When database monitoring is deployed, analyze:

* Availability
* Connections
* Query response time
* Slow queries
* Locks
* Capacity
* Errors

Correlate database performance with WordPress page and transaction performance.

## 12. Configure PHP Monitoring — Optional

When PHP telemetry is available, analyze application behavior such as:

* Availability
* Execution performance
* Errors
* Resource utilization
* Slow server-side processing

Use PHP telemetry to determine whether slow WordPress responses originate in application execution.

## 13. Configure Infrastructure Monitoring — Optional

When infrastructure is accessible, monitor:

* CPU
* Memory
* Disk
* Filesystem
* Network
* Processes

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> * Web server
> * Containers
> * Cloud resources

Analyze resource conditions together with WordPress performance.

## 14. Configure JS Profiler — Optional

Use GermainUX JS Profiler for deeper browser diagnostics.

Analyze:

* JavaScript execution
* Slow functions
* Browser processing
* Network activity
* Theme scripts
* Plugin scripts
* Third-party scripts
* Browser freezes

## 15. Configure Synthetic Monitoring — Optional

Configure synthetic WordPress scenarios created with RPA Bot Recorder.

Configure:

* Scenario
* Execution location
* Schedule
* Credentials
* Timeout
* Expected result

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> * Failure condition
> * Alert
> * Maintenance window

Use controlled test accounts and data.

## 16. Configure KPIs

Configure KPIs appropriate for the WordPress monitoring objective.

* User Session
* User Interaction
* Page Performance
* JavaScript Error
* HTTP Request
* Synthetic Transaction

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> * Application
> * Database
> * Infrastructure

Use KPIs available in the installed GermainUX version.

## 17. Configure Measures

Measures can include:

* Users
* Sessions
* Page views
* Interactions
* Clicks
* Errors

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> * Error rate
> * Page-load time
> * Interaction response time
> * API response time
> * Workflow duration
> * Workflow completion rate
> * Database query time
> * CPU utilization
> * Memory utilization

## 18. Configure Analysis Dimensions

Analyze WordPress monitoring data by:

* Application
* Environment
* User
* Session
* Page
* URL

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> * Interaction
> * Workflow
> * Browser
> * Device
> * Operating system
> * Geography
> * Error
> * API
> * Server
> * Database
> * Time period

## 19. Configure SLAs

Configure thresholds for conditions requiring attention.

Examples:

#### Availability

`Website Availability < Expected SLA`

#### Page Performance

`Page Load Time > Threshold`

#### Interaction

`Interaction Response Time > Threshold`

#### JavaScript

`JavaScript Error Rate > Threshold`

#### API

`WordPress API Response Time > Threshold`

#### Database

`Database Response Time > Threshold`

#### Synthetic Monitoring

`Critical Scenario = Failed`

## 20. Configure Rules and Automated Analysis

Create Rules such as:

* Slow Page + Slow API
* Slow Page + Slow Database
* JavaScript Error + Workflow Abandonment
* Plugin Error + Increased HTTP Failures
* Database Degradation + Slow Server Response
* CPU Increase + Page Performance Degradation
* New Error Pattern + Affected Users

## 21. Configure Alerts and Watches

Examples include:

**Website Unavailable → Alert Operations**

**JavaScript Errors Increasing → Notify Engineering**

**WordPress API Failure → Notify Application Team**

**Database Performance Degradation → Notify Database and Application Teams**

**Critical PHP Errors → Alert Support**

**Synthetic Transaction Failure → Alert Operations**

GermainUX can trigger:

* Alerts
* Watches
* Reports
* Approved diagnostics
* Approved automation

## 22. Configure Maintenance Windows

Define maintenance windows for expected changes such as:

* WordPress upgrades
* Theme upgrades
* Plugin updates
* PHP upgrades
* Database maintenance
* Hosting maintenance

Use maintenance windows to avoid unnecessary alerts during approved changes.

## 23. Configure Dashboards

### User Experience Dashboard

Monitor:

* Users
* Sessions
* Interactions
* Dead clicks
* Rage clicks
* Error clicks
* Session Replay
* Page performance

### Application Dashboard

Monitor:

* Website availability
* HTTP performance
* REST API
* PHP
* Errors
* Logs

### Engineering Dashboard

Monitor:

* JavaScript errors
* JS Profiler
* API performance
* PHP errors
* Plugin errors
* Database performance

### Infrastructure Dashboard

Monitor:

* CPU
* Memory
* Disk
* Network
* Processes
* Database
* Web server

## 24. Validate the Configuration

Verify:

**1. Sessions are created**

**2. Page views are captured**

**3. Navigation is captured**

**4. User interactions are captured**

**5. Click monitoring works as expected**

**6. Performance data is available**

**7. JavaScript errors are detected**

**8. Network requests are captured**

**9. Session Replay works**

**10. Sensitive data is protected**

**11. Workflows reconstruct correctly**

**12. REST API monitoring works when configured**

**13. Logs are collected when configured**

**14. Database monitoring works when configured**

**15. Infrastructure monitoring works when configured**

**16. Synthetic transactions execute correctly**

**17. SLAs evaluate correctly**

**18. Alerts and Watches operate as expected**

## Troubleshooting

### No RUM Data

Verify:

* RUM JS is installed.
* Correct WordPress domain is configured.
* Monitoring script loads successfully.
* Browser requests to GermainUX are not blocked.
* Caches contain the current monitoring configuration.
* Test user or IP is not excluded.

### RUM JS Loads More Than Once

Check all deployment locations, including:

* Theme
* Child theme
* Header injector
* Tag manager
* Plugins
* Custom JavaScript

Deploy RUM JS only once.

### Session Replay Is Missing

Verify:

* Session Replay is enabled globally.
* Session Replay is enabled for the UX Monitoring Profile.
* Privacy and exclusion settings are correct.
* Monitoring data reaches GermainUX.

### Theme or Plugin Update Breaks Monitoring

Verify whether the update changed:

* Theme header
* Script injection
* DOM structure
* JavaScript events
* Content Security Policy
* Caching
* Optimization settings

Revalidate RUM JS after significant theme or plugin changes.

### REST API Monitoring Fails

Verify:

* Endpoint
* HTTP method
* Authentication
* Credentials
* Network connectivity
* Expected response
* Engine availability

### Logs Are Missing

Verify:

* Log path
* File permissions
* Engine access
* Log rotation
* Parser or monitoring configuration

### Database Monitoring Is Missing

Verify:

* Database hostname
* Port
* Credentials
* Permissions
* Network connectivity
* Database monitor
* Engine status

### Get More Information

GermainUX can help determine which monitoring, analytics and automation capabilities are appropriate for your Wordpress environment. [Contact GermainUX Support](/main/support.md).

## Get Help

> **[Contact GermainUX Support](/main/support.md)**
>
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