Requizon 1.0 is out, now with alerts. Find out if a given request is consistently failing or it’s an intermittent failure. Get alerts when APIs are down, even if the provider do not expose status page. Check the error response of a failed request. boring-observability.dev/requizon

Requizon — a dashboard for your Laravel app's outbound HTTP

Requizon records every HTTP call your Laravel app makes out, with its duration, status, failure and redacted params, in your own database.

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I just answered to Claude, which asked “should I do A or B”, yes. I was curious what would happen. It didn’t provide the usual options where you have to choose, it was plain English question in the chat. So I typed yes and the reply came: “I took that as the first option”. Fair enough 🤷‍♂️

horizon-worker-stats 0.2.0 is out, now showing per-supervisor metrics. horizon-worker-stats adds memory and cpu usage information to the horizon dashboard. Check it out - github.com/boring-o11y/...

GitHub - boring-o11y/horizon-worker-stats: Memory and CPU stats for the workers

Memory and CPU stats for the workers. Contribute to boring-o11y/horizon-worker-stats development by creating an account on GitHub.

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horizon-delayed-jobs 0.2.0 is out. It adds a delayed jobs view to Laravel Horizon. Check it out github.com/boring-o11y/...

GitHub - boring-o11y/horizon-delayed-jobs: Delayed jobs view for Laravel Horizon

Delayed jobs view for Laravel Horizon. Contribute to boring-o11y/horizon-delayed-jobs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Requizon 0.6 is out - faster than ever, it now supports php-http/discovery, Guzzle 8 and allows to keep success responses, not just failures. Check it out boring-observability.dev/requizon

Requizon — a dashboard for your Laravel app's outbound HTTP

Requizon records every HTTP call your Laravel app makes out, with its duration, status, failure and redacted params, in your own database.

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Monitor your database index usage, table scans, lock waits and more! Ensure your database performs at its best. Sailfish is a performance monitoring tool for Laravel applications using MySQL. boring-observability.dev/sailfish

Sailfish — MySQL index and table usage history for Laravel

Sailfish keeps MySQL performance_schema history across restarts, finds cold and unused indexes, and alerts on scan, lock and error surges.

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What happens when you run parallel job chains in Laravel? Why the second job in the first chain waits for the first job in the last chain before executing? Find out in our new article: boring-observability.dev/blog/laravel...

Laravel Job Chains at Scale: Order and Latency — Skyline

Why hundreds of Laravel job chains run breadth-first, two ways to keep each chain in order without the wait, and the unique-lock and duplicate-run traps.

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Skyline 1.6 is out - now with an UI that lets you see during alerts, acknowledge or snooze them, and see exactly what alerts are configured. Check it out boring-observability.dev/skyline

Skyline for Laravel — queue alerts and control on top of Laravel Horizon

A drop-in Laravel Horizon replacement that alerts when a queue stalls, jobs fail or Horizon stops, and releases stuck ShouldBeUnique locks.

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httptheus 0.3.0 is out. httptheus provides prometheus instrumentation for Guzzle and Laravel HttpClient. Check it out - github.com/boring-o11y/...

GitHub - boring-o11y/httptheus: prometheus exporter for your Guzzle and Laravel Http client

prometheus exporter for your Guzzle and Laravel Http client - boring-o11y/httptheus

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Database locks are among the hardest things to debug in an application. Sailfish gives you actionable data. boring-observability.dev/sailfish

Over 100 commits! A couple of them made it to Laravel Horizon itself. And if we were to merge everything back to Horizon, here is how it looks like:

Ever noticed a route slowed down, diagnosed, found out a new query is not using an index? We’ll alert you on that instead!

Laravel Horizon Alerting: What Horizon Sends on Its Own and What Prometheus Adds

Laravel Horizon Alerting: What Horizon Sends on Its Own and What Prometheus Adds

Horizon alerting layer by layer: LongWaitDetected, alert rules for spatie/laravel-prometheus and a counter exporter, and the failures metrics miss.

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Should we rewrite Horizon UI in LiveWire? Yes or no?

New from the blog: Laravel Horizon Alerting: What Horizon Sends on Its Own and What Prometheus Adds boring-observability.dev/blog/laravel...

Laravel Horizon Alerts with Prometheus and Grafana — Skyline

Horizon alerting layer by layer: LongWaitDetected, alert rules for spatie/laravel-prometheus and a counter exporter, and the failures metrics miss.

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Something exciting is coming for your database monitoring. We can tell you not only if an index is used, but exactly when and how much

While working on our new monitoring tool for Redis, we noticed quite big keys occupying half of the available cache memory. Turns out to be the full page cache, containing raw, uncompressed HTML. Full write up and how we’ve fix it - boring-observability.dev/blog/laravel...

Laravel Full-Page Cache: Compressing Redis Entries — Skyline

Full-page cache entries in Redis can reach megabytes. Compare predis and phpredis, enable phpredis zstd compression, or compress in a serializer on predis.

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Skyline 1.5 adds alerts to Laravel Horizon. Horizon sends one notification, for a long queue wait, and never says when the wait ended. The outage that costs the most, Horizon not running at all, goes unreported. boring-observability.dev/skyline/docs... 🧵

Thanks to the stranded unique lock alert in Skyline, found a real bug in production. Turns out if Laravel job’s handle method modifies properties used in the uniqueid, the uniqueid used at dispatch to acquire and at complete to release the lock might end up being different and lock is not released

We’re working on something very exciting for MySQL

Your agents need data. That’s the new generation of observability tools: collect the data, expose it via MCP

Did you know that MySQL (5.7+) can tell you which indexes are unused. Note that the stats are lost upon restart, so make sure #MySQL was up long enough before you start dropping indexes

Cache and background job queues have different persistence needs. But Redis settings apply for the entire instance, not for individual dbs. That’s why it’s best to keep separate instance for background jobs from the one used for cache

It’s hard to keep up with all the changes in Laravel, across all of its components. So we extracted the ones that affect the background jobs. Perhaps we need to classify the entire changelog based on which subsystem is affected. But if useful for anyone - boring-observability.dev/laravel/queu...

Laravel 13 Queue & Job Changelog — Skyline

Every change to Laravel 13 queues, jobs, workers and batches, collected from the framework's own history with notes on what matters.

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Grafana’s MCP is the best way to allow AI agent to diagnose issues with your infrastructure without giving it direct access to the servers (e.g. stays read only). Assuming you already have Prometheus/Grafana setup

Laravel Queues: 11 Must-Know Advanced Tips www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeDi...

Laravel Queues: 11 Must-Know Advanced Tips

YouTube video by Laravel Daily

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For years, Laravel Horizon shipped with a single notification - and it’s a quite noisy one. So we were left with building alerts with Grafana - and Skyline extended what data is available for that. But now we’re bringing notifications where they belong. Skyline 1.5 will ship with build-in alerting

You shouldn't need a monthly APM bill just to see which API call timed out. That's the problem I wanted to solve with Requizon. It lets you see every outgoing request by simply installing the package. Recording is automatic. No agent. No subscription. requizon.boring-observability.dev

Requizon — a dashboard for your Laravel app's outbound HTTP

Requizon records every HTTP call your Laravel app makes out, with its duration, status, failure and redacted params, in your own database.

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No amount of vibe coding can replace using your own product in production. Seeing the rough edges, the functionality you realise you miss only after an incident. That’s what makes our products different - used in production, at scale, every single day, improving them week after week.