Track the Health of Your Application With Laravel Health

Track the Health of Your Application With Laravel Health

ravel Health is a package by Spatie to monitor the health of your applications. You accomplish this by configuring one or more of the available checks (or creating a custom check). At the time of release, Spatie's Health package has the following checks:

• CPU Load
• Database Connection
• Debug Mode
• Environment
• Flare Error Count
• Horizon
• MeiliSearch
• Ping
• Redis
• Schedule
• Used Disk Space

Here's an example of how you'd register a check as seen in the documentation:

1use Spatie\Health\Facades\Health;
2use Spatie\Health\Checks\Checks\UsedDiskSpaceCheck;
3 
4Health::checks([
5    UsedDiskSpaceCheck::new()
6        ->warnWhenUsedSpaceIsAbovePercentage(70)
7        ->failWhenUsedSpaceIsAbovePercentage(90),
8]);

Given the above disk space check, when used space is above 90%, the health package will send a notification via email, Slack, or Oh Dear! Spatie Health automatically throttles notifications so that you'll only receive one notification per hour by default, or you can configure a custom throttling timeframe in minutes.

Lastly, you can view health statuses via a web browser UI provided by this package, from the CLI, or as JSON.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub. Also, read A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application for more background on the package.

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Laravel Migration Actions

 Laravel Migration Actions

Laravel migration actions is like version control for your migration process, allowing your team to modify and share the application's actionable schema. If you have ever had to tell a teammate to perform any action on a production server manually, you've come across an issue that actions solve.

Actions are stored within a database/actions folder and operate similarly to the way migrations work. This package also includes an Artisan command to create new actions. Here's what an example action might look like:

 1<?php
 2 
 3use DragonCode\LaravelActions\Support\Actionable;
 4use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
 5 
 6class ExampleAction extends Actionable
 7{
 8    protected $transactions = true;
 9 
10    /**
11     * Run the actions.
12     *
13     * @return void
14     */
15    public function up(): void
16    {
17        DB::table('users')->insert([
18            'name' => 'Example User',
19            'email' => 'user@example.com',
20            'password' => bcrypt('password')
21        ]);
22    }
23 
24    /**
25     * Reverse the actions.
26     *
27     * @return void
28     */
29    public function down(): void
30    {
31        //
32    }
33}

Some of the packages main features include:

• Ability to run actions every time you call migrate:actions command
• Execution of actions only in specific environments
• Exclude actions from specific environments
• Easy database transactions in actions with configurable attempts before failing
• Rolling back actions
• Display the status of actions in the current environment

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.

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