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laravel April 24th, 2026

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.

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laravel March 27th, 2026

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.

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Laravel June 24th, 2025

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.

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