Laravel Telescope Debugging

Debugging production issues blindly wastes time. Laravel Telescope provides elegant insights into requests, exceptions, queries, and jobs. At ZIRA Software, Telescope has reduced debugging time by 70%.

Installation

composer require laravel/telescope
php artisan telescope:install
php artisan migrate

Request Monitoring

See every HTTP request:

• Request data (headers, body, session)
• Response data and status
• Middleware execution
• Route information

// Automatically captured
// Visit /telescope to view dashboard

Query Monitoring

Identify slow queries:

// Telescope shows:
// - Query SQL
// - Bindings
// - Execution time
// - Connection
// - Location in code

// Example slow query alert
DB::listen(function ($query) {
    if ($query->time > 100) {
        // Telescope captures this automatically
    }
});

Exception Tracking

All exceptions captured:

• Stack trace
• Request context
• User information
• Environment data

Job Monitoring

class ProcessOrder implements ShouldQueue
{
    // Telescope tracks:
    // - Job payload
    // - Execution time
    // - Attempts
    // - Failures
}

Performance Insights

Monitor application health:

• Slow requests
• Memory usage
• Database query count
• Cache hit rates

Production Configuration

// config/telescope.php
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_ENABLED', true),

// Limit recording in production
'only_exceptions' => [
    \App\Exceptions\CriticalException::class,
],

// Prune old entries
'pruning' => [
    'enabled' => true,
    'days' => 7,
],

Watchers

Customize what Telescope monitors:

'watchers' => [
    Watchers\CacheWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_CACHE_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\CommandWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_COMMAND_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\DumpWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_DUMP_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\EventWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_EVENT_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\ExceptionWatcher::class => true,
    Watchers\JobWatcher::class => true,
    Watchers\LogWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_LOG_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\MailWatcher::class => true,
    Watchers\ModelWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_MODEL_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\NotificationWatcher::class => true,
    Watchers\QueryWatcher::class => env('TELESCOPE_QUERY_WATCHER', true),
    Watchers\RequestWatcher::class => true,
],

Authorization

Restrict access:

// app/Providers/TelescopeServiceProvider.php
protected function gate()
{
    Gate::define('viewTelescope', function ($user) {
        return in_array($user->email, [
            'contact@zirasoftware.com',
        ]);
    });
}

Conclusion

Telescope transforms debugging from guesswork to data-driven problem solving. Essential for modern Laravel development.

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