‘It works on my machine’, ‘We can’t test that in staging’, ‘It seems to have been broken for a while’… This sounds familiar to many of us, and this is what I want to fix with this talk! I will share practical & easy ways to approach observability in WordPress, and move beyond logs to investigate and fix issues on websites, plugins & themes. I’ll demonstrate how modern observability turns reactive firefighting into proactive problem-solving, drawing from our experience maintaining some of WordPress’s most popular plugins.