Tagged “scouting”

I recently moved a Scouting WordPress site off of Flywheel and onto a Dokku box I run myself. The migration went fine. That is a different post. The migration left me with a problem Flywheel used to solve for free: when something breaks at 11pm, how do I find out before a member/volunteer does?

I've been using AppSignal for a very long time for all my Rails apps. They shipped a PHP integration recently, and it hit my "to do" list for the migration. The catch, which became the whole adventure: AppSignal for PHP supports Laravel and Symfony. WordPress appears nowhere in their documentation. WordPress appears nowhere in anyone's documentation. It is the eternal special case, a composer-less, framework-less island that also happens to run half the web.

This is the story of bolting the two together anyway. It works, and works well: real per-request traces with database query spans…