Laravel application health monitoring

You can start monitoring the health of a Laravel application by using the spatie/laravel-health package.

Using this package you can monitor the health of your application by registering one of the available checks. Out of the box it can monitor disk space, if Horizon is running, if your application is sending a lot of application errors (through Flare), and much more.

Here's an example where we'll monitor used disk space.

// typically, in a service provider

use Spatie\Health\Facades\Health;
use Spatie\Health\Checks\Checks\UsedDiskSpaceCheck;

Health::checks([
    UsedDiskSpaceCheck::new()
        ->warnWhenUsedSpaceIsAbovePercentage(70)
        ->failWhenUsedSpaceIsAbovePercentage(90);
]);

Installation and registering checks

In the docs of spatie/laravel-health, you'll find instructions on how to install the package and register your first check. We highly recommend reading the full docs of the package, so you know what it's capable off.

Adding a health check endpoint to your Laravel app

Oh Dear will send an HTTP request to your application to a specific endpoint to get health check. Your application should respond with JSON containing the result of health checks.

You can add such an endpoint using the spatie/laravel-health package. To do this, must configure the ohdear_endpoint_key in the health config file.

You can publish that health with this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="health-config"

These are some of the default values in the published health config file.

// in app/config/health.php

/*
 * You can let Oh Dear monitor the results of all health checks. This way, you'll
 * get notified of any problems even if your application goes totally down. Via
 * Oh Dear, you can also have access to more advanced notification options.
 */
'oh_dear_endpoint' => [
    'enabled' => false,

    /*
     * When this option is enabled, the checks will run before sending a response.
     * Otherwise, we'll send the results from the last time the checks have run.
     */
    'always_send_fresh_results' => true,

    /*
     * The secret that is displayed at the Application Health settings at Oh Dear.
     */
    'secret' => env('OH_DEAR_HEALTH_CHECK_SECRET'),

    /*
     * The URL that should be configured in the Application health settings at Oh Dear.
     */
    'url' => '/oh-dear-health-check-results',
],

To get started:

• set the enabled config option to true
• add a secret (we recommend putting it in the .env file, just like you would do for any application secret or password)
• optionally customize the url where the health check endpoint will be registered.

Adding health checks

Now that you have registered an endpoint, let's add some checks to your app. To learn how to do this, head over to the Registering your first check page in the laravel-health docs.

Configuring the health check at Oh Dear

In the application health check settings screen at Oh Dear, you should fill in the URL and secret that you specified in the health config file.

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Avoid stored results and sending notifications locally

Oh Dear will notify you when something goes wrong with one of your health checks, so you can safely disable the notifications sent by the package itself.

You can set the notifications.enabled option to `false.

'notifications' => [
    /*
     * Notifications will only get sent if this option is set to `true`.
     */
    'enabled' => true,

If you don't want to keep health results in your local application, set the result_stores option in the health config file to the InMemoryHealthResultStore.

// in app/config/health.php

'result_stores' => [
     Spatie\Health\ResultStores\InMemoryHealthResultStore::class,
],