Introduction
Laravel Telescope makes a wonderful companion to your local Laravel development environment. Telescope provides insight into the requests coming into your application, exceptions, log entries, database queries, queued jobs, mail, notifications, cache operations, scheduled tasks, variable dumps, and more.
Installation
You may use the Composer package manager to install Telescope into your Laravel project:
composer require laravel/telescope
After installing Telescope, publish its assets using the
telescope:install
Artisan command. After installing
Telescope, you should also run the migrate
command in order
to create the tables needed to store Telescope's data:
php artisan telescope:install
php artisan migrate
Migration Customization
If you are not going to use Telescope's default migrations, you
should call the Telescope::ignoreMigrations
method in the
register
method of your application's
App\Providers\AppServiceProvider
class. You may export the
default migrations using the following command:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=telescope-migrations
Local Only Installation
If you plan to only use Telescope to assist your local development,
you may install Telescope using the --dev
flag:
composer require laravel/telescope --dev
php artisan telescope:install
php artisan migrate
After running telescope:install
, you should remove the
TelescopeServiceProvider
service provider registration from
your application's config/app.php
configuration file.
Instead, manually register Telescope's service providers in the
register
method of your
App\Providers\AppServiceProvider
class. We will ensure the
current environment is local
before registering the
providers:
/**
* Register any application services.
*/
public function register(): void
{
if ($this->app->environment('local')) {
$this->app->register(\Laravel\Telescope\TelescopeServiceProvider::class);
$this->app->register(TelescopeServiceProvider::class);
}
}
Finally, you should also prevent the Telescope package from being auto-discovered by adding the
following to your composer.json
file:
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"dont-discover": [
"laravel/telescope"
]
}
},
Configuration
After publishing Telescope's assets, its primary configuration file
will be located at config/telescope.php
. This configuration
file allows you to configure your watcher
options. Each configuration option includes a description of its
purpose, so be sure to thoroughly explore this file.
If desired, you may disable Telescope's data collection entirely
using the enabled
configuration option:
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_ENABLED', true),
Data Pruning
Without pruning, the telescope_entries
table can
accumulate records very quickly. To mitigate this, you should schedule the telescope:prune
Artisan command to run daily:
$schedule->command('telescope:prune')->daily();
By default, all entries older than 24 hours will be pruned. You may
use the hours
option when calling the command to determine
how long to retain Telescope data. For example, the following command
will delete all records created over 48 hours ago:
$schedule->command('telescope:prune --hours=48')->daily();
Dashboard Authorization
The Telescope dashboard may be accessed at the
/telescope
route. By default, you will only be able to
access this dashboard in the local
environment. Within your
app/Providers/TelescopeServiceProvider.php
file, there is
an authorization gate definition.
This authorization gate controls access to Telescope in
non-local environments. You are free to modify this
gate as needed to restrict access to your Telescope installation:
use App\Models\User;
/**
* Register the Telescope gate.
*
* This gate determines who can access Telescope in non-local environments.
*/
protected function gate(): void
{
Gate::define('viewTelescope', function (User $user) {
return in_array($user->email, [
'taylor@laravel.com',
]);
});
}
Warning!!
You should ensure you change yourAPP_ENV
environment variable toproduction
in your production environment. Otherwise, your Telescope installation will be publicly available.
Upgrading Telescope
When upgrading to a new major version of Telescope, it's important that you carefully review the upgrade guide.
In addition, when upgrading to any new Telescope version, you should re-publish Telescope's assets:
php artisan telescope:publish
To keep the assets up-to-date and avoid issues in future updates, you
may add the vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets
command to
the post-update-cmd
scripts in your application's
composer.json
file:
{
"scripts": {
"post-update-cmd": [
"@php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-assets --ansi --force"
]
}
}
Filtering
Entries
You may filter the data that is recorded by Telescope via the
filter
closure that is defined in your
App\Providers\TelescopeServiceProvider
class. By default,
this closure records all data in the local
environment and
exceptions, failed jobs, scheduled tasks, and data with monitored tags
in all other environments:
use Laravel\Telescope\IncomingEntry;
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
/**
* Register any application services.
*/
public function register(): void
{
$this->hideSensitiveRequestDetails();
Telescope::filter(function (IncomingEntry $entry) {
if ($this->app->environment('local')) {
return true;
}
return $entry->isReportableException() ||
$entry->isFailedJob() ||
$entry->isScheduledTask() ||
$entry->isSlowQuery() ||
$entry->hasMonitoredTag();
});
}
Batches
While the filter
closure filters data for individual
entries, you may use the filterBatch
method to register a
closure that filters all data for a given request or console command. If
the closure returns true
, all of the entries are recorded
by Telescope:
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Laravel\Telescope\IncomingEntry;
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
/**
* Register any application services.
*/
public function register(): void
{
$this->hideSensitiveRequestDetails();
Telescope::filterBatch(function (Collection $entries) {
if ($this->app->environment('local')) {
return true;
}
return $entries->contains(function (IncomingEntry $entry) {
return $entry->isReportableException() ||
$entry->isFailedJob() ||
$entry->isScheduledTask() ||
$entry->isSlowQuery() ||
$entry->hasMonitoredTag();
});
});
}
Tagging
Telescope allows you to search entries by "tag". Often, tags are
Eloquent model class names or authenticated user IDs which Telescope
automatically adds to entries. Occasionally, you may want to attach your
own custom tags to entries. To accomplish this, you may use the
Telescope::tag
method. The tag
method accepts
a closure which should return an array of tags. The tags returned by the
closure will be merged with any tags Telescope would automatically
attach to the entry. Typically, you should call the tag
method within the register
method of your
App\Providers\TelescopeServiceProvider
class:
use Laravel\Telescope\IncomingEntry;
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
/**
* Register any application services.
*/
public function register(): void
{
$this->hideSensitiveRequestDetails();
Telescope::tag(function (IncomingEntry $entry) {
return $entry->type === 'request'
? ['status:'.$entry->content['response_status']]
: [];
});
}
Available Watchers
Telescope "watchers" gather application data when a request or
console command is executed. You may customize the list of watchers that
you would like to enable within your config/telescope.php
configuration file:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\CacheWatcher::class => true,
Watchers\CommandWatcher::class => true,
...
],
Some watchers also allow you to provide additional customization options:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\QueryWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_QUERY_WATCHER', true),
'slow' => 100,
],
...
],
Batch Watcher
The batch watcher records information about queued batches, including the job and connection information.
Cache Watcher
The cache watcher records data when a cache key is hit, missed, updated and forgotten.
Command Watcher
The command watcher records the arguments, options, exit code, and
output whenever an Artisan command is executed. If you would like to
exclude certain commands from being recorded by the watcher, you may
specify the command in the ignore
option within your
config/telescope.php
file:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\CommandWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_COMMAND_WATCHER', true),
'ignore' => ['key:generate'],
],
...
],
Dump Watcher
The dump watcher records and displays your variable dumps in
Telescope. When using Laravel, variables may be dumped using the global
dump
function. The dump watcher tab must be open in a
browser for the dump to be recorded, otherwise, the dumps will be
ignored by the watcher.
Event Watcher
The event watcher records the payload, listeners, and broadcast data for any events dispatched by your application. The Laravel framework's internal events are ignored by the Event watcher.
Exception Watcher
The exception watcher records the data and stack trace for any reportable exceptions that are thrown by your application.
Gate Watcher
The gate watcher records the data and result of gate and policy checks by your
application. If you would like to exclude certain abilities from being
recorded by the watcher, you may specify those in the
ignore_abilities
option in your
config/telescope.php
file:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\GateWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_GATE_WATCHER', true),
'ignore_abilities' => ['viewNova'],
],
...
],
HTTP Client Watcher
The HTTP client watcher records outgoing HTTP client requests made by your application.
Job Watcher
The job watcher records the data and status of any jobs dispatched by your application.
Log Watcher
The log watcher records the log data for any logs written by your application.
By default, Telescope will only record logs at the error
level and above. However, you can modify the level
option
in your application's config/telescope.php
configuration
file to modify this behavior:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\LogWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_LOG_WATCHER', true),
'level' => 'debug',
],
// ...
],
Mail Watcher
The mail watcher allows you to view an in-browser preview of emails sent by your application along with their
associated data. You may also download the email as an .eml
file.
Model Watcher
The model watcher records model changes whenever an Eloquent model event is dispatched. You may
specify which model events should be recorded via the watcher's
events
option:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\ModelWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_MODEL_WATCHER', true),
'events' => ['eloquent.created*', 'eloquent.updated*'],
],
...
],
If you would like to record the number of models hydrated during a
given request, enable the hydrations
option:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\ModelWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_MODEL_WATCHER', true),
'events' => ['eloquent.created*', 'eloquent.updated*'],
'hydrations' => true,
],
...
],
Notification Watcher
The notification watcher records all notifications sent by your application. If the notification triggers an email and you have the mail watcher enabled, the email will also be available for preview on the mail watcher screen.
Query Watcher
The query watcher records the raw SQL, bindings, and execution time
for all queries that are executed by your application. The watcher also
tags any queries slower than 100 milliseconds as slow
. You
may customize the slow query threshold using the watcher's
slow
option:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\QueryWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_QUERY_WATCHER', true),
'slow' => 50,
],
...
],
Redis Watcher
The Redis watcher records all Redis commands executed by your application. If you are using Redis for caching, cache commands will also be recorded by the Redis watcher.
Request Watcher
The request watcher records the request, headers, session, and
response data associated with any requests handled by the application.
You may limit your recorded response data via the
size_limit
(in kilobytes) option:
'watchers' => [
Watchers\RequestWatcher::class => [
'enabled' => env('TELESCOPE_REQUEST_WATCHER', true),
'size_limit' => env('TELESCOPE_RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT', 64),
],
...
],
Schedule Watcher
The schedule watcher records the command and output of any scheduled tasks run by your application.
View Watcher
The view watcher records the view name, path, data, and "composers" used when rendering views.
Displaying User Avatars
The Telescope dashboard displays the user avatar for the user that
was authenticated when a given entry was saved. By default, Telescope
will retrieve avatars using the Gravatar web service. However, you may
customize the avatar URL by registering a callback in your
App\Providers\TelescopeServiceProvider
class. The callback
will receive the user's ID and email address and should return the
user's avatar image URL:
use App\Models\User;
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
/**
* Register any application services.
*/
public function register(): void
{
// ...
Telescope::avatar(function (string $id, string $email) {
return '/avatars/'.User::find($id)->avatar_path;
});
}