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Laravel Pulse - Beginner Notes

Laravel Pulse is a monitoring tool for Laravel applications. Laravel Pulse is a real-time application monitoring package for Laravel that helps you track your application’s performance and health. It provides insights into requests, slow queries, jobs, exceptions, cache usage, and server activity through a clean dashboard, making it easier to identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your application’s performance.

Think of it as a health dashboard for your website. It helps you see:

How it works?

Imagine you run a small online store built with Laravel.

A customer opens the /products page, but it feels slow. You do not know why. Laravel Pulse helps you find the reason.

For example, Pulse may show:

Now you can understand the problem clearly. Instead of guessing, you can fix the slow query or improve the page.

So, Laravel Pulse works like a report card for your website. It tells you what is happening behind the scenes.

Step 1: Create a Laravel Project

If you don’t already have a Laravel project:

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-pulse-project

Move into the project folder:

cd laravel-pulse-project

Step 2: Configure the Database

Make sure your database is ready.

Example .env settings for MySQL:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_pulse
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Run:
php artisan migrate

Step 3: Start Laravel

Run:

php artisan serve

Expected output:

INFO  Server running on http://127.0.0.1:8000

Open the URL in your browser.

Step 4: Install Laravel Pulse

Open another terminal and install the package using Composer:

composer require laravel/pulse

Step 5: Publish Pulse Configuration and Migration Files

Run:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Pulse\PulseServiceProvider"

This command copies Pulse files into your project, such as:

Now you can edit the configuration later if needed.

Step 6: Run Database Migrations

Pulse needs database tables to store its data.

Run:

php artisan migrate

This creates the tables needed for Pulse.

Important:

If your database is not created or not configured correctly, this command will fail.

Step 7: Open the Pulse Dashboard

Once the migrations have been run, you may access the Pulse dashboard via the /pulse route.

Open:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/pulse

You should now see the Pulse dashboard.

Step 8: Generate Website Traffic

Open:

http://127.0.0.1:8000

Refresh the page several times.

Visit different pages if available.

This helps Pulse collect data.

Step 9: If No Data Appears

  1. Make sure your Laravel app is running.
  2. Visit your website several times.
  3. Wait a minute.
  4. Refresh the Pulse dashboard.
  5. If your app uses queues, run this in another terminal:
php artisan queue:work

Pulse needs some activity before it can show useful statistics.

Easy Analogy

Imagine a school:

Students = Website Visitors

School = Laravel Application

Principal Dashboard = Pulse Dashboard

Staff Collecting Reports = Queue Worker

School Records = Database

Flow:

Visitor opens website
        ↓
Laravel handles request
        ↓
Pulse records information
        ↓
Queue Worker processes data
        ↓
Database stores statistics
        ↓
Pulse Dashboard displays reports

Commands Summary

composer create-project laravel/laravel pulse-demo

cd pulse-demo

composer require laravel/pulse

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Pulse\PulseServiceProvider"

php artisan migrate

php artisan serve

Open another terminal:

php artisan queue:work

Then visit:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/pulse

Refresh your website a few times and check the Pulse dashboard again.

You should now see Laravel Pulse collecting and displaying data.

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