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laravel

The Complete Guide to Production Observability in Laravel: Pulse, Nightwatch, and OpenTelemetry

Most Laravel teams ship to production with nothing but log files. This guide wires up the three pillars of observability — metrics, traces, and logs — with Pulse, Nightwatch, and OpenTelemetry, then builds an alerting strategy around the golden signals.

17 min read
laravel

Laravel Health Checks for Kubernetes Readiness and Liveness Probes

Laravel's /up route only proves the framework booted. Here's how to build readiness and liveness endpoints Kubernetes can actually trust: covering the database, Redis, queue, and disk.

8 min read
laravel

Laravel Telescope vs Debugbar vs Pulse: Which Monitoring Tool When

Laravel ships three monitoring tools and most teams install all three without knowing which does what. Here's when to reach for each one.

7 min read
laravel

Building custom Laravel Pulse recorders to track your own metrics

Pulse ships with solid built-in recorders. Here's how to extend it with your own: tracking the domain events that actually matter in your app.

5 min read
Laravel

Stop Wasting Monitoring Quota: Block Malicious 404s with NGINX

Malicious bots were burning through my Laravel Nightwatch quota by hitting fake routes like /wp-login.php and /.env. Inspired by Michael Dyrynda’s approach using Cloudflare WAF, I built a portable NGINX blocklist that stops these 404s before they reach Laravel: no proxy required.

5 min read