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untymage's avatar

Using telescope on production?

Does it make sense if i use telescope on production ? I'm not quick familiar with it but it seems good to tracking users , Does telescope reduce the app performance ? Because it execute on all requests...

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tykus's avatar

Telescope aggregates all of the metrics/data and inserts it after the request has been served - you can specify a separate DB connection for telescope also if the size/performance of your production database is of concern.

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fylzero's avatar

@untymage Personally, I'd suggest not doing this. Telescope should not act as a log system and is really a tool for troubleshooting issues locally... even though it allows installation elsewhere. I'm assuming likely for the purpose of having it on a dev server, but not production.

Pay attention to this sentence in the Telescope documentation...

Telescope makes a wonderful companion to your local Laravel development environment.

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LucaPipolo's avatar

@fylzero As @kitesurf mentioned, the episode 2 of the Learn Telescope series is dedicated to setup Telescope for production.

Also, on the Laravel 11 official documentation you can read:

You should ensure you change your APP_ENV environment variable to production in your production environment. Otherwise, your Telescope installation will be publicly available.

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