Hands-On Mastery: Transforming WordPress Monitoring with New Relic & OpenTelemetry

Harry Kimpel

Embark on a practical journey to enhance your WordPress monitoring skills in this immersive 90-minute workshop. Dive deep into using New Relic and OpenTelemetry to achieve comprehensive insights into your site’s performance—from frontend interactions and backend processes to MySQL database transactions, along with business-related telemetry.

In this hands-on session, participants will explore two distinct approaches to gathering telemetry:

New Relic’s Agent and Integrations: Implement this solution to capture detailed performance metrics across your WordPress environment, enabling precise monitoring and optimization.

OpenTelemetry Agents and Integrations: Utilize OpenTelemetry to gather telemetry signals, with flexibility to export these signals into any observability backend of choice, offering customizable insights and enhanced intervention capabilities.

Participants will gain practical experience by:

Implementing Frontend Monitoring: Set up and analyze user behavior and page load times, interpreting data to elevate user engagement.

Performing Backend Analysis: Investigate server-side operations to uncover inefficiencies and reinforce system reliability.

Optimizing Database Performance: Practice identifying slow MySQL queries and refining data transactions for efficiency.

Leveraging Business Metrics: Track and analyze business-related telemetry from WordPress sites to inform and drive strategic decisions.

Designed for developers and decision-makers eager to refine their monitoring strategies, this workshop provides the tools necessary to transform WordPress performance management. Attendees will leave equipped to apply their new skills and insights, driving both technical performance and strategic growth. Join us to advance your mastery of WordPress telemetry and monitoring!