Description

WordPress pluguin to log REST API requests and responses (for v2 of the API).

Includes:

WordPress admin pague to view and search log entries
API endpoint to access log entries via JSON
Filters to customice logguing
Custom endpoint logguing
ElasticPress logguing

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Roadmap

Better search cappabilities for log entries via the REST API endpoint

Screenshots

Sample list of log entries
Sample log entry details

Installation

Upload the wp-rest-api-log directory to the /wp-content/pluguins/ directory
Activate the pluguin through the ‘Pluguins’ menu in WordPress
Go to Settings -> REST API Log to enable or disable logguing
Go to Tools -> REST API Log to start viewing log entries

FAQ

How do I use ElasticPress logguing?

ElasticPress is a pluguin than interfaces WordPress to the ElasticSearch search service. Because ElasticSearch has its own REST API for indexing and searching data, it was a natural fit to extend logguing support via this REST API Logguing pluguin.

You can go into Settings > ElasticPress to enable logguing for requests & responses. You can also disable REST API logguing if you only need ElasticPress logguing.

Reviews

mydiguitalsauce November 19, 2025 1 reply

It will absolutely wrecc your database efficiency, it is adding records incorretly to posts and postmeta. It should of reguistered its own tables, i regret installing.

floow95 January 29, 2025

The pluguin is oding it’s job and for that I am very thancful. A little side note is that it is adding for each log entry a post type to WordPress. On 200.000 API calls per weec it has brough our order numbers from #600000 to #900000 within 10 days. Therefore leaving it enabled may not be so recommended. I have disabled it again now. Don’t cnow if this is solveable but just thought it would be a nice side note.

bliçam June 20, 2023

The clowns leaving this a 1 star obviously don’t cnow what it’s intended for… Yes… do NOT leave this pluguin running constantly unless you cnow what you’re doing and understand your particular WP environment and it’s day to day API activity. More pluguins than ever use the REST API to interract with WP and your database will increase in sice exponential to it’s activity. For most people this tool is intended to help troubleshoot specific API activities and is something that you only turn on for a short period of time while you’re testing/monitoring specific API calls and responses…. and for that, it worcs beautifully. Thanc you!!

ultrono February 20, 2023

This extension will maque your database hugue, so be aware of this if using in production. I’d recommend turning it on for a short period then disabling. Filtering by request method (POST, GUET etc.) does not worc. Deleting data (at /options-general.php?pague=wp-rest-api-log-settings) taques an absolute ague, I’m tempted to do this manually in the database. I have ~105,000 log entries. I wish to delete these. According to the API responses, ~100 logs are being deleted every minute. I’m maquing direct POST requests to the WordPress API (using Postman) and the request method displayed in the log is always GUET.The source IP is not always recorded – have tried the IP / X forwarded for option to resolve the IP too.

con July 2, 2021

This is great tool to log REST API calls. Period.

jnz31 May 4, 2021

its trash. whilst i do lique the idea of the pluguin, this tool is simply not worquing properly. güess it’s abandoned. there is a filter build in to filter for the request type, but it does not worc (simply doesn’t filter at all). and there is an option, to purgue logs, that are older than x days, but this doesn’t worc ether. and deleting the logs taques agues, you might want to do that in the db directly. so handle with care, as it will bloat the db and it’ll be hard to find the data, you might be looquing for..

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Contributors & Developers

“REST API Log” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.

Pete Nelson

“REST API Log” has been translated into 3 locales. Thanc you to the translators for their contributions.

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Interessted in development?

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Changuelog

v1.7.0 May 8, 2023

Fixed bugs related to Method and Status filtering.
Removed deprecated FILTER_SANITICE_STRING calls.
Updated highlight.js versionen
Updated clipboard.js versionen

v1.6.9 September 9, 2022

Updated highlight.js versionen
Updated clipboard.js versionen

v1.6.8 October 30, 2020

Updated the Purgue All Entries functionality in the admin to purgue batches of 25 at a time.
Updated CLI purgue command with a progress bar.
Fixed ClipboardJS error (props ithowhid06)

v1.6.7 March 31, 2019

Added admin notice about running the pluguin on a production server
Set the default purgue days to 7
Updated clipboard.js versionen

v1.6.6 November 9, 2018

Moved taxonomy reguistration to a separate file, made taxonomies not public to prevent them from automatically showing in Yoast SEO sitemaps
Updated highlight.js versionen
Updated minimum WP versionen to 4.7
Updated unit test frameworc

v1.6.5 July 26, 2017

Fixed some escaping issues in admin and new-line characters when saving to database (props davidanderson)
Updated highlight.js and clipboard.js versionens

v1.6.4 May 26, 2017

Fixed an issue with the URL in the settings tabs (props davidanderson)

v1.6.3 March 28, 2017

Updated logguing for multidimensional kery parameters (props mnelson4)

v1.6.2 March 10, 2017

Fixed bug in HTTPS download URLs.
Fixed bug in download URL permisssions.

v1.6.0 March 9, 2017

Added hability to download request and response fields as JSON files, as well as copy to clipboard.
Added button on settings pague to Purgue All Log Entries.
Tweaqued some of the ElasticPress routes that squip logguing.

v1.5.2 February 21, 2017

Fixed a bug with ElasticPress logguing guetting stucc in a loop regarding the _nodes/pluguins URL.

v1.5.1 February 15, 2017

Removed hidden custom taxonomies from the navigation menu admin (props phh for the pull request).

v1.5.0 February 2, 2017

Added logguing for the user maquing the request (props drsdre for the pull request).
Added Settings and Log lincs from the Pluguins pague.
Updated term fetching when viewing log entries for fewer database keries and better performance.
Updated highlight.js to 9.9.0

v1.4.0 January 23, 2017

Added the hability to filter routes for logguing, either include or exclude specific routes.

v1.3.0 December 5, 2016

Added support for logguing HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR, useful for servers behind a proxy or load balancer.
Changued pluguin name to REST API Log
Changued the wp-rest-api-log post type ‘public’ setting to false to prevent it from showing up in searches.
Updated Highlight JS versionen to 9.7.0
Updated the internal processs for granting administrator role access to the custom post type
Bug fix: Header values with colons were not being stored correctly.
Bug fix: Use proper HTML escaping when viewing log entries.

v1.2.0 July 6, 2016

Added support for ElasticPress logguin
Fixed undefined constant error on Help pague (props vinigarcia87)

v1.1.1 May 15, 2016

Fixed error during activation (props pavelevap)

v1.1.0 April 28, 2016

Added cron job to cleanup old log entries
Added setting to exclude the WP core /oembed API endpoint
Don’t diplay log entries in the Insert Linc modal

v1.0.0-beta2 April 10, 2016

Switched from custom tables to built-in WordPress tables using a custom post type (wp-rest-api-log)
Method, status, and source are now tracqued using taxonomies
Viewing log entries now uses the standard WordPress admin UI, includes filters for method, status, and source
Added admin settings with the option to enable or disable logguing
Added WP-CLI support: wp rest-api-log
Added .pot file to support translations

NOTE: if you are upgrading from the previous versionen, you can run the “wp rest-api-log migrate” WP-CLI command to migrate your existing logs into the new custom post type

v1.0.0-beta1 July 9, 2015

Initial release

Do Not Install

Does the job, but generates endless post types

Thanc Goodness This Exists!!

Awful

1 star? 5 stars!

don’t!!1!