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Laravel Pulse: A Comprehensive Guide to Monitoring Your Applications for Free

I Nyoman Jyotisa
3 min readDec 10, 2024

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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…

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