laravel-pulse

laravel-pulse

When to use

Use this skill when working with Laravel Pulse:

• Setting up the Pulse monitoring dashboard
• Configuring built-in recorders (slow queries, exceptions, queues, etc.)
• Creating custom Pulse cards and recorders
• Performance monitoring and alerting

Procedure: Set up Pulse

1. Inspect current monitoring — Check composer.json, existing telemetry packages, and config/ for Pulse, Telescope, or Horizon already installed; identify gaps.
2. Install — composer require laravel/pulse, publish config, run migrations.
3. Configure — Set up recorders in config/pulse.php.
4. Add dashboard — Register route and authorize access.
5. Verify — Visit /pulse dashboard, confirm data is being recorded.

Installation

composer require laravel/pulse
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Pulse\PulseServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

Dashboard

Access control

// PulseServiceProvider or Gate
Gate::define('viewPulse', function (User $user): bool {
    return $user->isSuperuser();
});

Dashboard route

Pulse registers /pulse automatically. Customize in config/pulse.php:

'path' => 'pulse',
'middleware' => ['web', 'auth'],

Built-in cards

Card	What it shows
<livewire:pulse.servers />	CPU, memory, storage per server
<livewire:pulse.usage />	Top users by request count
<livewire:pulse.queues />	Queue throughput and wait times
<livewire:pulse.slow-queries />	Slowest database queries
<livewire:pulse.slow-requests />	Slowest HTTP requests
<livewire:pulse.slow-jobs />	Slowest queued jobs
<livewire:pulse.slow-outgoing-requests />	Slowest external HTTP calls
<livewire:pulse.exceptions />	Most frequent exceptions
<livewire:pulse.cache />	Cache hit/miss ratio

Dashboard view

{{-- resources/views/vendor/pulse/dashboard.blade.php --}}
<x-pulse>
    <livewire:pulse.servers cols="full" />

    <livewire:pulse.usage cols="4" rows="2" />
    <livewire:pulse.queues cols="4" />
    <livewire:pulse.cache cols="4" />

    <livewire:pulse.slow-queries cols="8" />
    <livewire:pulse.exceptions cols="4" />

    <livewire:pulse.slow-requests cols="6" />
    <livewire:pulse.slow-jobs cols="6" />
</x-pulse>