Leverage Laravel Pulse for Enhanced Performance Monitoring Efficiency

Saandeep Baansod
2 min readApr 16, 2024

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Laravel Pulse is like a guardian for your Laravel applications, designed to make developer life easier. It’s all about keeping your apps healthy and performing at their best. It automates monitoring tasks, catching critical issues before they affect your users.

Laravel Pulse, Credits : https://pulse.laravel.com

Database Support:

Pulse’s first-party storage implementation currently requires a MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL databases. If you are using a different database engine, you will need a separate MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database for your Pulse data.

Installation:

It’s easy to set up, just follow the instructions.

Laravel Pulse Dashboard

Laravel Pulse Dashboard, Credits : https://pulse.laravel.com

Watch this video to get started with Official Laravel Pulse. It’s a beginner’s guide to help you kick off your Pulse journey smoothly.

Laravel Youtube

What can you learn?

User Activity:

Find out which users are making the most requests or using the slowest parts of your app.

Performance Insights:

Identify slow routes or jobs that might be causing issues.

Monitoring features:

  • Slow Routes: Pinpoints route endpoints that are taking a long time to respond.
  • Slow Jobs: Helps locate processing-heavy jobs and tracks job failures.
  • Slow Queries: Identifies queries that are slowing down your app.
  • Exceptions: Keeps track of errors thrown by your app.
  • HTTP Requests: Monitors all HTTP requests and their execution times.
  • Server Stats: Tracks CPU, disk, and memory usage, even across multiple servers.

Conclusion

Laravel Pulse is a powerful tool that helps you keep your Laravel apps running smoothly. With its real-time monitoring and insightful features, you can ensure a high-quality user experience and reliable performance.

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Saandeep Baansod
Saandeep Baansod

Written by Saandeep Baansod

Learning and Sharing Knowledge || Front-end Dev

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