johnbillion / query-monitor

4.0.7 2026-06-20 20:10 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.4.0
• composer/installers: ^1.0 || ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer: 0.7.2
• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^7.0
• johnbillion/plugin-infrastructure: 2.9.4
• johnbillion/wp-compat: 1.5.0
• php-stubs/wordpress-stubs: 7.0.0 as 6.9.4
• php-stubs/wp-cli-stubs: 2.12.0
• phpcompatibility/phpcompatibility-wp: 2.1.5
• phpstan/phpstan: 2.1.46
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: 2.0.4
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: 2.0.16
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: 3.11.1
• szepeviktor/phpstan-wordpress: 2.0.3
• wp-coding-standards/wpcs: 2.3.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

• John Blackbourn

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-06-20 20:10 UTC

README

Query Monitor

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. Here's an example showing aggregate database queries grouped by the components responsible for them:

Features

Database Queries

• Shows all database queries performed during the current request
• Shows affected rows and time taken for all queries
• Shows notifications for slow queries, duplicate queries, and queries with errors
• Shows aggregate query information grouped by type, component, or calling function
• Queries can be filtered by query type, component, or calling function

Filtering queries by component or calling function makes it easy to see which plugins, themes, or functions on your site are making the most (or the slowest) database queries.

Hooks & Actions

• Shows all hooks fired during the current request, along with action callbacks, priorities, and components
• Actions can be filtered by component or name

Theme

• Shows the template filename and complete template hierarchy
• Shows all template parts that were requested, and whether they were loaded or not
• Shows the available body classes
• Fully supports block themes and full site editing (FSE)

PHP Errors

• Shows PHP warnings, notices, stricts, and deprecated errors, formatted nicely along with their component and call stack
• Shows a visible warning in the admin toolbar when necessary

Doing it Wrong

• Shows usage of "Doing it Wrong" or "Deprecated" functionality in the code on your site

Block Content

• Shows blocks and associated information from post content and full site editing

Request

• Shows information about matched URL rewrite rules for the request and corresponding query parameters
• Shows query variables and highlights any that are custom

Scripts & Styles

• Shows all enqueued scripts and styles along with their handle, URL, and version
• Shows their dependencies and dependents
• Alerts you to any broken or missing dependencies
• Supports the script modules feature added in WordPress 6.5

Languages

• Shows you language settings and loaded text domains
• Shows you the requested MO, JSON, and PHP translation files for each text domain and which ones were loaded

HTTP API Requests

• Shows all server-side HTTP requests (as long as they use the WordPress HTTP API)
• Shows the response code, call stack, component, timeout, response size, time taken, and other meta data
• Alerts you to erroneous responses, such as failed requests and anything without a 200 response code
• Supports Guzzle HTTP requests via an optional middleware for comprehensive HTTP debugging

User Capability Checks

• Shows every user capability check that is performed, along with the result and any parameters passed along with the capability check

Multisite

• Shows all calls to switch_to_blog() and restore_current_blog() on Multisite installations

Redirects

• Whenever a server-side redirect occurs, Query Monitor adds an X-QM-Redirect HTTP header containing the call stack, so you can use your favourite HTTP inspector or browser developer tools to trace where a redirect has come from

Ajax

The response from any jQuery Ajax request on the page will contain various debugging information in its headers. Any errors also get output to the developer console. No hooking required.

Currently this includes PHP errors and some overview information such as memory usage, but this will be built upon in future versions.

REST API

The response from an authenticated WordPress REST API request will contain various debugging information in its headers, as long as the authenticated user has permission to view Query Monitor's output.

Read more about debugging REST API requests with Query Monitor.

Admin Screen

• Shows the correct names for custom column filters and actions on all admin screens that use a list table
• Shows the state of get_current_screen() and a few global variables

Environment Information

• Shows PHP information such as memory limit, error reporting levels, and values of various constants
• Shows MySQL or MariaDB information, including caching and performance related configuration
• Shows information about WordPress and the web server
• Shows version numbers for all the things

Logging

Debugging messages can be sent to the Logs panel using actions. This works as a good replacement for var_dump():

do_action( 'qm/debug', 'This happened!' );

The logger is PSR-3 compatible, so you can use any of the following actions which correspond to PSR-3 log levels:

• qm/debug
• qm/info
• qm/notice
• qm/warning
• qm/error
• qm/critical
• qm/alert
• qm/emergency

A log level of warning or higher will trigger a notification in Query Monitor's admin toolbar.

Read more about profiling and logging in Query Monitor.

Profiling

Basic performance profiling can be displayed in the Timings panel using actions in your code:

// Start the 'foo' timer:
do_action( 'qm/start', 'foo' );

// Run some code
my_potentially_slow_function();

// Stop the 'foo' timer:
do_action( 'qm/stop', 'foo' );

Read more about profiling and logging in Query Monitor.

Guzzle HTTP Client Support

Query Monitor can log HTTP requests made with the popular Guzzle HTTP client library. This enables debugging of requests that bypass WordPress's HTTP API:

use GuzzleHttp\HandlerStack;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

// Add Query Monitor middleware to your Guzzle client
$stack = HandlerStack::create();
$stack->push(QM_Collector_HTTP::guzzle_middleware());
$client = new Client(['handler' => $stack]);

// All requests will now appear in Query Monitor
$response = $client->get('https://api.example.com/data');

Guzzle requests will appear alongside WordPress HTTP API requests in the HTTP API Requests panel with full debugging information including timing, response codes, and stack traces.

Everything Else

• Shows any transients that were set, along with their timeout, component, and call stack
• Shows all WordPress conditionals during the current request, highlighted nicely
• Shows an overview at the top, including page generation time and memory limit as absolute values and as % of their respective limits

Authentication

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 when you're logged in as a user who cannot usually see Query Monitor's output. See the Settings panel for details.

Reviews

If you enjoy using Query Monitor I would greatly appreciate it if you left a positive review on the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.

Sponsors

The time that I spend maintaining this plugin and others is in part sponsored by:

     

Plus all my kind sponsors on GitHub:

Click here to find out about supporting my open source tools and plugins.

Notes

A Note on Query Monitor's Implementation

In order to do a few clever things, Query Monitor symlinks a custom db.php into your WP_CONTENT_DIR which means it loads very early. This file gets included before the database driver is loaded, meaning this portion of Query Monitor loads before WordPress even engages its brain.

In this file is Query Monitor's extension to the wpdb class which:

• Allows it to log details about all database queries (including ones that happen before plugins are loaded)
• Logs the full stack trace for each query, which allows it to determine the component that's responsible for the query
• Logs the query result, which allows it to display the affected rows or error message if applicable

If your WP_CONTENT_DIR isn't writable and therefore the symlink for db.php can't be put in place, Query Monitor still functions, but this extended functionality won't be available. You can manually create the db.php symlink if you have permission.

Screenshots

Aggregate Database Queries by Component

Database Queries

Timeline

Hooks and Actions

HTTP API Requests

Logs

Frequently Asked Questions

See the FAQ on the WordPress.org plugin page for Query Monitor.

Do you accept donations?

I am accepting sponsorships via the GitHub Sponsors program. If you work at an agency that develops with WordPress or WooCommerce, ask your company to provide sponsorship in order to invest in its supply chain. The tools that I maintain probably save your company time and money, and GitHub sponsorship can now be done at the organisation level.

In addition, if you like the plugin then I'd love for you to leave a review. Tell all your friends about it too!

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. It implements best practices for web accessibility, outputs semantic and structured markup, uses the accessibility APIs provided by WordPress and web browsers where appropriate, and is fully accessible via keyboard.

That said, Query Monitor does not conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 at level AA like WordPress itself does. The main issue is that the user interface uses small font sizes to maintain a high information density for sighted users. Users with poor vision or poor motor skills may struggle to view or interact with some areas of Query Monitor because of this. This is something which I'm acutely aware of and which I work to gradually improve, but the underlying issue of small font sizes remains.

If you've experienced or identified another accessibility issue in Query Monitor, please open a thread in the Query Monitor plugin support forum and I'll try my best to address it swiftly.

Related Tools

Debugging is rarely done with just one tool. Along with Query Monitor you should be aware of other plugins and tools for debugging and profiling your website. Here are some recommendations:

Plugins for WordPress

• Block Debug
  Adds a panel to the block editor showing the name, attributes, and serialised HTML of the selected block.
• Block X-ray Attributes
  Shows the raw attributes of the selected block in the block editor sidebar.
• Code Profiler
  Profiles the execution time of plugins, themes, and core to find performance bottlenecks.
• Debug This
  Adds front-end debug views for queries, globals, rewrite rules, and more via the admin toolbar.
• Decalog
  Captures events, traces, and metrics and sends them to local or external logging services.
• Laps
  Shows a timeline of PHP execution, database queries, and HTTP requests in the admin toolbar.
• Log HTTP Requests
  Logs outgoing HTTP API requests and their responses for later inspection.
• Rewrite Rules Inspector
  Lists all rewrite rules and shows which rule matches a given URL.
• Snitch
  Logs outgoing connections from your site and lets you block them.
• Scrutoscope
  Profiles every hook callback and attributes the execution time to the responsible plugin, theme, or core.
• User Switching
  Instantly switch between user accounts to test your site as different users.
• WP Crontrol
  View, edit, and run WP-Cron events and schedules.
• WordPress Sentry
  Reports PHP and JavaScript errors to Sentry.

Query Monitor also has several add-on plugins which extend its functionality, and transparently supports add-ons for the Debug Bar plugin (see the FAQ for more info).

See also my list of Plugins for WordPress Developers.

Tools for WordPress developers

• Query Monitor WordPress Snippets for VS Code
  Editor snippets for Query Monitor's logging and timing functions.
• Hook Order
  Reference for the order in which WordPress fires its actions and filters during different types of request.
• Wonolog
  Monolog-based logging for WordPress that logs core events and your own messages.
• WP-CLI profile command
  Profiles hooks, load stages, and database queries from the command line.

Other tools

• Buggregator
  Local server that collects debug output, logs, emails, and profiler data from PHP applications.
• Clockwork
  Browser extension and server-side library for profiling and debugging PHP requests.
• Meminfo
  PHP extension that dumps memory usage and object references for analysis.
• memprof
  PHP extension that profiles memory allocation and reports where memory is consumed.
• phpspy
  Low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP that requires no changes to your application.
• Psysh
  Interactive PHP shell for running code and inspecting objects.
• Ray
  Desktop app that displays debug output sent from your code.
• Reli
  Sampling profiler for PHP that reads process memory without changing your application.
• SPX
  PHP profiler extension with a built-in web UI for viewing reports.
• Tinkerwell
  Desktop app for running PHP code against your local or remote application.
• Xdebug
  PHP extension for step debugging, profiling, and code coverage.
• XHProf
  Function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP.

Hosted services

• Blackfire
  PHP profiling and performance testing.
• Datadog
  Monitoring, application performance management, and log management.
• Loggly
  Log aggregation and search.
• New Relic
  Application performance monitoring.
• Scout
  Application performance monitoring for PHP with tracing and N+1 query detection.
• Sentry
  Error tracking and performance monitoring.

Contributing

Code contributions, feedback, and feature suggestions are very welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

Icon

Query Monitor's icon was designed by Tubagus Didin Asrori.

License: GPLv2

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.