Logs
Many different types of logs are available for WordPress and Node.js applications on the VIP Platform. Logs are a useful reference for debugging, hardening security, and incident investigation.
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Audit Log
The Audit Log in the VIP Dashboard provides an audit trail of all management actions for an organization or an application.
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WP-CLI Commands log
The WP-CLI Commands panel in the VIP Dashboard displays a log of all WP-CLI commands that were run on an environment using the VIP-CLI vip wp command.
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Runtime Logs
Runtime Logs provides aggregated, near real-time application logs including PHP error logs for WordPress applications and output sent to stdout or stderr for Node.js applications.
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Log Shipping
HTTP request Log Shipping provides logs for each request made to VIP’s edge network of servers for an environment.
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HTTP request edge logs
HTTP request edge logs show data about each request that was made to VIP’s edge network of servers for a site. To access HTTP request edge logs for an environment, enable Log Shipping in the VIP Dashboard. The Log Shipping feature automatically ships logs to a configured cloud bucket on a regular cadence. Shipped logs are delivered as a series of gzipped JSON files. An example JSON-formatted record in a shipped HTTP request edge log file: Description of fields Field Description asn The Autonomous System Number (ASN) of the remote_addr IP address body_bytes_sent Total number of bytes sent to the client cache_segment…
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HTTP request origin logs
HTTP request logs show data about each request that bypasses VIP’s edge network of servers and reaches a site’s origin server. To access HTTP request origin logs, enable Log Shipping for an environment in the VIP Dashboard. The Log Shipping feature automatically ships logs to a configured cloud bucket on a regular cadence. Shipped logs are delivered as a series of gzipped JSON files. An example JSON-formatted record in a shipped HTTP request origin log file: Description of fields Field Description body_bytes_sent The number of bytes (excluding headers) sent in the HTTP response body datacenter An abbreviated value of the…
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Slow Query Logs
Slow query Logs provide the ability to identify queries made by an application that take an unusually long time to execute.
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Analyze shipped logs
Analyzing shipped log files can provide crucial insight into an application’s quality of performance and the ways users are interacting with site content. The JSON-formatted log files are human-readable, but the logged data can also be ingested into a log management solution application to provide additional analysis, visualization, and understanding. Some common log management applications for ingesting shipped data, depending on the type of logged data and desired purpose: GoAccess GoAccess is an open source tool that can be used to visualize data for HTTP request logs from edge and origin to can gain deeper insights into an application. For…
Last updated: December 29, 2025