About supported WPM recorders

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.

The Web Transaction Recorder in WPM offers advanced features, including an integration with SolarWinds Pingdom. Windows and macOS versions are available.

Note the following details about the Web Transaction Recorder:

• To learn about deploying Web Transaction Recorders, see the WPM Getting Started Guide.
• The Web Transaction Recorder does not respond to the middle and right mouse buttons.
• Web Transaction Recorder files end with .web-recording.

The following table provides feature comparisons:

Action	Web Transaction Recorder (Windows)	Web Transaction Recorder (macOS)	Deprecated WPM Recorder
Navigate
Click
Text match
Delete text
File download
File upload		1 Files less than 1 MB can be uploaded and saved within the recording file. For files larger than 1 MB, WPM stores the path to the selected file on the disk of the PC or server on which the recording was created. Therefore, if you create a transaction for that recording, it will fail on the remote location where the recording was assigned unless you also copy the file to the same path on the remote location that was used to select a file from the disk while capturing the file upload action.
X, Y Capture
Image Match
Image Match with click	2 Use Image Match with X, Y Capture to simulate WPM "Image match with click" functionality.
Wait time
Authentication
Proxy authentication
Handle certificates
Capture Tab key	3 In Windows, Tab keystrokes in text fields are not captured. In macOS, the Command key ( ⌘ ) is not supported.
Capture Enter, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down key		4 To capture Home and End keys on macOS systems, use Fn + Left and Fn + Right key combinations. For Page Up and Page Down, use Fn + Up and Fn + Down.
Capture Insert, Delete, Ctrl + key, Shift + key		5 For Delete key, use Fn + Delete keys.
Conditional steps
Track navigation between browser tabs
Integration with Pingdom	6 Some features are not currently supported by Pingdom.