Introduction
Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for the Laravel framework. 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. Telescope makes a wonderful companion to your local Laravel development environment.
Installation
You may use Composer 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:
php artisan telescope:install
php artisan migrate
Installing Only In Specific Environments
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
After running telescope:install
, you should remove the TelescopeServiceProvider
service provider registration from your app
configuration file. Instead, manually register the service provider in the register
method of your AppServiceProvider
:
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
if ($this->app->isLocal()) {
$this->app->register(\Laravel\Telescope\TelescopeServiceProvider::class);
$this->app->register(TelescopeServiceProvider::class);
}
}
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"
]
}
},
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 AppServiceProvider
. You may export the default migrations using the php artisan vendor:publish --tag=telescope-migrations
command.
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 and 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:
$schedule->command('telescope:prune --hours=48')->daily();
Dashboard Authorization
Telescope exposes a dashboard at /telescope
. By default, you will only be able to access this dashboard in the local
environment. Within your app/Providers/TelescopeServiceProvider.php
file, there is a gate
method. This authorization gate controls access to Telescope in non-local environments. You are free to modify this gate as needed to restrict access to your Telescope installation:
/**
* Register the Telescope gate.
*
* This gate determines who can access Telescope in non-local environments.
*
* @return void
*/
protected function gate()
{
Gate::define('viewTelescope', function ($user) {
return in_array($user->email, [
'taylor@laravel.com',
]);
});
}
Note:
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 version of Telescope, 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 telescope:publish
command to the post-update-cmd
scripts in your application's composer.json
file:
{
"scripts": {
"post-update-cmd": [
"@php artisan telescope:publish --ansi"
]
}
}
Filtering
Entries
You may filter the data that is recorded by Telescope via the filter
callback that is registered in your TelescopeServiceProvider
. By default, this callback records all data in the local
environment and exceptions, failed jobs, scheduled tasks, and data with monitored tags in all other environments:
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
$this->hideSensitiveRequestDetails();
Telescope::filter(function (IncomingEntry $entry) {
if ($this->app->isLocal()) {
return true;
}
return $entry->isReportableException() ||
$entry->isFailedJob() ||
$entry->isScheduledTask() ||
$entry->hasMonitoredTag();
});
}
Batches
While the filter
callback filters data for individual entries, you may use the filterBatch
method to register a callback that filters all data for a given request or console command. If the callback returns true
, all of the entries are recorded by Telescope:
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
$this->hideSensitiveRequestDetails();
Telescope::filterBatch(function (Collection $entries) {
if ($this->app->isLocal()) {
return true;
}
return $entries->contains(function ($entry) {
return $entry->isReportableException() ||
$entry->isFailedJob() ||
$entry->isScheduledTask() ||
$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 callback which should return an array of tags. The tags returned by the callback will be merged with any tags Telescope would automatically attach to the entry. You should call the tag
method within your TelescopeServiceProvider
:
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
$this->hideSensitiveRequestDetails();
Telescope::tag(function (IncomingEntry $entry) {
if ($entry->type === 'request') {
return ['status:'.$entry->content['response_status']];
}
return [];
});
}
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,
],
...
],
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 in 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 recording to occur, 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'],
],
...
],
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.
Mail Watcher
The mail watcher allows you to view an in-browser preview of the emails 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 created
, updated
, restored
, or deleted
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*'],
],
...
],
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 100ms 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 response data via the size_limit
(in KB) 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.
Displaying User Avatars
The Telescope dashboard displays the user avatar for the user that was logged in 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 TelescopeServiceProvider
. The callback will receive the user's ID and email address and should return the user's avatar image URL:
use App\User;
use Laravel\Telescope\Telescope;
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function register()
{
Telescope::avatar(function ($id, $email) {
return '/avatars/'.User::find($id)->avatar_path;
});
}