One alternative to Laravel Debugbar for monitoring performance of scheduled jobs in Laravel is to use the Telescope package. Telescope is a debugging assistant for Laravel applications that provides a clean and elegant interface for monitoring various aspects of your application's performance.
To install Telescope, you can follow these steps:
- Install the package via Composer:
composer require laravel/telescope
- Publish the Telescope assets and configuration file:
php artisan telescope:install
- Migrate the Telescope tables to your database:
php artisan migrate
- Optionally, you can configure Telescope to only be available in non-production environments by adding the following code to your
app/Providers/TelescopeServiceProvider.phpfile:
public function register()
{
if ($this->app->isLocal()) {
$this->registerTelescope();
}
}
Once Telescope is installed and configured, you can access it by visiting the /telescope route in your application. From there, you can monitor various aspects of your application's performance, including scheduled jobs.
To monitor a specific scheduled job, you can add custom Telescope entries within the job's code. For example, you can use the Telescope::recordJob method to record information about the job's execution. Here's an example:
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
class MyScheduledJob implements ShouldQueue
{
public function handle()
{
Telescope::recordJob($this->job, 'My Scheduled Job');
// Your job logic here
}
}
This will record information about the job's execution, such as the number of queries, runtime, and more. You can then view this information in the Telescope dashboard.
Telescope provides a powerful and user-friendly interface for monitoring the performance of your Laravel application, including scheduled jobs. It can be a great alternative to Laravel Debugbar for this specific use case.