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Laravel Pulse: A Comprehensive Guide to Monitoring Your Applications for Free
3 min readDec 10, 2024
Introduction to Laravel Pulse
Laravel Pulse is a free, open-source package designed to help Laravel developers monitor the performance and health of their web applications in real-time. It was created by Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, to address challenges he faced with Laravel Forge, particularly diagnosing performance issues and identifying high-resource-consuming users.
The fact that such a robust monitoring tool is available for free is astonishing, yet here it is!
When Was Laravel Pulse Released?
Laravel Pulse debuted as a beta release on December 1, 2023. Although the stable version is yet to be announced, any updates will be promptly shared.
Key Features of Laravel Pulse
1. User Activity Insights
- Identify users consuming the most resources.
- Pinpoint frequent requests, slow endpoints, and high job dispatchers.
2. Server Metrics
- Monitor vital…