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Payment and shipping plugins log their failures quietly. A daily report shows when one starts failing, before customers complain.
Hear about your site’s errors before your visitors do.
Error logs quietly record what goes wrong on your site: a failing plugin, a payment that didn’t go through, a page that crashes. LayerAssist reads them for you and explains what matters.
At a glance
- AutomationThe ready-made “Application errors” automation reads your logs on a schedule, sums up new errors and their likely cause, and changes nothing.
- In chatIn chat, it traces an error to its cause — a plugin, a setting, a code change — and fixes it.
- Not available yetErrors aren’t watched in real time: you hear about a new one at the next run, from once a day up to every 15 minutes, depending on your plan.
Errors pile up where nobody looks
Every website writes an error log. When a plugin fails, a payment gateway times out or a page crashes, the details go there, and stay there. Most owners never open it, so small problems grow until something visibly breaks.
Reading logs isn’t easy either: thousands of lines, repeated warnings, cryptic messages. The hard part is telling the one error that loses you orders from the hundred notices that don’t matter.
Signs your site is logging errors
- Some pages show a blank screen or “There has been a critical error”
- A feature works for you but fails for some visitors
- Orders, sign-ups or form messages drop for no clear reason
- The error log file keeps growing
Common sources of application errors
Plugin and theme updates
An update that doesn’t fit your PHP version or another plugin can break a page or a feature.
PHP version changes
When the hosting company upgrades PHP, old code starts throwing errors and warnings.
Outside services timing out
Payment gateways, shipping rates, email services and APIs can fail or slow down, and your site logs every failure.
Limits being reached
Memory, upload or execution-time limits that were fine last year are no longer enough.
How LayerAssist reads your error logs
It does the reading, sorting and explaining, so you only hear about what matters.
Reads the right logs
With access to your hosting or server, it finds the logs your site actually writes: PHP, the web server, the WordPress debug log or your app’s own.
Separates signal from noise
It groups repeated messages, sets aside harmless notices and points out errors that are new or growing.
Explains the likely cause
Each report says in plain words what’s failing and why it probably started, for example the plugin that updated last night.
Fixes it when you ask
The scheduled check only reports. In chat, LayerAssist traces the error, fixes it and confirms it stopped.
Example: a payment error nobody saw
What it checks
- PHP error log: 38 failed payment confirmations since yesterday
- Payment provider: answering normally
- Cause: the plugin’s notification address still points to the old domain
- Other entries: two harmless notices
What it changes
Updated the notification address in the payment plugin’s settings and confirmed new confirmations arrive
What you get
- A plain-language summary instead of thousands of log lines
- New and growing errors highlighted, noise left out
- The likely cause, not just the message
- Reports only: nothing changes without you
Real situations
A custom web app
A developer-built app writes errors to a file. LayerAssist reads it every hour on the Pro plan and flags new exceptions after each release.
A site after a PHP upgrade
The host moved to a newer PHP. The report lists which plugins now throw warnings, so they can be updated before they break.
How to set up error log monitoring
Connect your hosting or server
LayerAssist needs access that can read logs: SSH is best; a hosting panel or FTP also works for many sites.
Add the automation
In Automations, choose New automation, pick your site and select “Application errors”.
Choose how often
From once a day up to every 15 minutes, depending on your plan.
Read the report, ask for the fix
When a report flags something, ask about it in chat and LayerAssist takes it from there.
Questions about error log monitoring
The ones your access reaches: PHP and web server error logs, the WordPress debug log and log files your application writes. With SSH it can also read system logs.
As often as your plan allows automations to run: from once a day on Go up to every 15 minutes on Max. Each check is an AI run and counts toward your monthly usage.
Not in this automation: it reads and reports. Fixes happen when you ask in chat.
No. It reads the logs each time it runs, so you hear about an error at the next run, not the second it happens. For outages, add the website availability monitor.
Related guides
- In chatHTTP status codesFinds pages that answer 404, 500 or 503 errors, and fixes them.
- AutomationWordPress updatesChecks for updates daily, backs up, updates and tests.
- AutomationDatabase healthChecks your database is running, reachable and free of errors.
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