Documentation forWeb Performance Monitor

Use Offline mode in the Deprecated WPM Recorder

If you are currently using the Deprecated WPM Recorder, it's important to understand that SolarWinds has now aligned with Microsoft Support and will no longer support Internet Explorer-based transactions in a near-term future release. As a result, upcoming releases of WPM will not support editing or playing transactions that originate in the Deprecated WPM Recorder. Now is the time to migrate your WPM recordings and discontinue using the Deprecated WPM Recorder. See Migrate WPM recordings using the Recordings Migration Tool for details.

In addition, macOS users should be aware that the macOS Web Transaction Recorder Installer will be removed and no longer available in the 2025.4 release.

If your SolarWinds Platform account does not have Admin-level WPM User Role permissions or you are working on a remote system that isn't connected to the SolarWinds Platform server, you can use Offline mode to create recordings. When finished, export the recording to your local drive in XML format and then import it into the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.

To create a recording with a Deprecated WPM Recorder that isn't connected to the SolarWinds Platform server:

  1. From the Windows Start menu, click Start, type WPM, and click WPM Recorder (deprecated).

  2. In the Login window, click Work Offline.
  3. In the Web Transaction Recorder window, enter the URL of the web page you are recording.
  4. Click Record and begin the sequence.
  5. When finished, click Stop to play back the recording.
  6. To assign the recording to a transaction location, you'll need to transfer it to system that is connected to the SolarWinds Platform server export the recordings to a local drive, and then transfer them to their destination using e-mail, FTP, or some other means.:
    1. Export the recording to your local drive in XML format and then import it into the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
    2. Import the recording into the Deprecated WPM Recorder hosted that is connected to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console, and then save it to the SolarWinds Platform server.

To learn about creating transactions by assigning the recording to one or more WPM Players, see Create WPM transaction monitors based on recordings.