Full Maintenance Log and Report (plugin updates etc)
Rune Rasmussen
It's crucial that WP Umbrella logs every maintenance aspects of a site, including changes and updates made directly on the site. Whether it's through wp-admin, ftp, command line or whatever.
It simply isn't enough to just monitor what's done from WP Umbrella, we need to be able to keep track of every installed/removed/activated/deactivated/updated/downgraded plugin etc.
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Akira Zabala
This sound difficult to implement but I think it could be done and would be AWESOME to update from the backend and have it recorded on Umbrella. The plugin is already there, should be fairly easy to log those actions. The only delicate thing is not to log EVERYTHING in a way that could be problematic (Usually some loggers make up thousands of DB records if not used properly). Great idea though, and I would dare to say it's kind of a holy grail cause no one to my knowledge has done this.
Rune Rasmussen
Akira Zabala actually Watchful.li have full logs for plugin updates etc., even though other important things are missing. And then you have Logtivity.io who is logging to much by default.
Anyhow I'm just talking about system changes (Maintenance), like every plugin update, not every user interaction and order changes. :)
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Akira Zabala
Rune Rasmussen Agree to that, with updates done to the site would be more than enough and really useful.
Rune Rasmussen
Akira Zabala And now Logtivity.io even can log and alert about "silently disabled plugins": https://logtivity.io/track-silently-disabled-plugins/ - a must have feature since WP doesn't seem to prioritise the issue themselves ...?!
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Akira Zabala
Rune Rasmussen thanks for this update, didn't know it was possible to automate this kind of monitoring. Been having several issues like that and also one pesky bug that makes my sites randomly disable ALL plugins at once when bulk updating with umbrella. They are looking into it cause it shouldn't happen, but with this kind of logging and the upcoming Visual regression monitoring feature it would be much easier to know if something breaks.