Yes, Stream is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Stream?

Stream has 80K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Stream alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Stream include WP Mail Log, Log Emails, DecaLog. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Stream work with the latest WordPress?

Stream has been tested up to WordPress 6.9.4. It requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+.

Is Stream well supported?

Stream has a 0% support resolution rate based on 1 recent support threads on WordPress.org.

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Stream

With Stream, you’re never left in the dark about changes to your WordPress site.

By XWP·Logs·Free

4.3(76 reviews)

·80K+ active installs·Updated 1 month ago

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As of April 2026, Stream is a WordPress logs plugin with 80K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 76 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 14% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: WP Mail Log.

4.3/576 reviews

80K+active installs

0%resolved

13 yearssince 2013

Overview

With real-time notifications and third-party integrations, Stream can proactively alert you when something goes wrong with your WordPress site.

Designed for debugging and compliance purposes, Stream is useful for keeping tabs on your WordPress users: From activating plugins to deleting posts, to login attempts and new user creation, you can see what’s changed, who changed it and when.

The plugin records WordPress user and system action to the Stream logs. Every logged-in user action is displayed in an activity stream and organized for easy filtering by User, Role, Context, Action or IP address. Admins can highlight entries in the Stream log—such as suspicious user activity—to investigate what’s happening in real time. Stream also allows you to configure email alerts and webhooks for inte…

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Recent Reviews

Integration of logging and notification makes a lot of sense

by Martin Sauter·2 years ago

Helpful and nicely done. Especially the integration of logging and notification features makes a lot of sense and sets this plugin apart from others.

On the other hand: The information provided in email notifications is not always sufficient and only in parts customizable. And it looks like the developers do not care about answering questions in the support forum.

This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Martin Sauter.

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING

by jaybharatjay·3 years ago

getting error

Constant WP_Stream\FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is deprecated in

Great plugin!

by Dimitrios·3 years ago

This is a great plugin that records almost everything except the video plays of my revolution video player WordPress plugin. I wish it could record when a user plays a video and when he stops on one. Otherwise I love it already! Thanks for considering this.

Love this plugin

by appinlet·5 years ago

Have been using this plugin for many years now, very useful as an audit trail when a site “just broke itself” 😛

Great plugin totally recommended!

by freesong·5 years ago

This is awesome plugin indeed! Just if you could add video playback footprint support