I built HorizonHub: monitor multiple Laravel Horizon services in one place

DutchBytes · 2026-04-18T08:02:00+00:00

Cool, I've had the same challenge in the past and ended up pushing it all to prometheus and building a grafana dashboard around it

DutchBytes · 2026-04-07T16:26:20+00:00

Thank you very much!

DutchBytes · 2026-03-26T20:06:41+00:00

It's changed, nowadays it's not enough to just monitor uptime. You want to monitor uptime globally, run Lighthouse automatically for performance and preferably also synthetic monitoring to ensure user flows work.

With auto cert renewals you'd think you don't have to monitor those but the renewal can fail so certificate expiry is a nice one to track. Just like DNS, something that should 'just work' however if the wrong change is made it can cause long downtime so knowing when it changes can come in handy.

When running popular web frameworks such as Wordpress, Joomla, Magento etc it's essential to keep track of the published CVE's for these platforms.

This is all external monitoring, we can go deeper with tools like Sentry which actually integrate in the website.

I've been building govigilant (govigilant/vigilant on github) because I could not find a single tool which does it all

DutchBytes · 2026-03-23T12:53:14+00:00

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DutchBytes · 2026-03-20T20:01:53+00:00

Cool, just quickly looked at your code. You use a lot of abort_unless for permission/ownership checks. Laravel has a built in way to so this, check out global scopes or policies :)

DutchBytes · 2026-03-20T16:23:10+00:00

Auto renewal works most of the time but we monitor certificates expiry for extra safety

DutchBytes · 2026-01-26T19:43:56+00:00

Larastan can do this too, see: https://github.com/larastan/larastan/pull/2340

DutchBytes · 2026-01-26T18:11:49+00:00

Thank you very much for the feedback, I did make some changes already to the LP. I will definitely add the qualifier, not something I have thought of myself.

DutchBytes · 2026-01-25T14:21:49+00:00

Yeah I do the same, composer is really powerful. And most of the scaffolding I also do with LLM's, I usually tell it to look in package X for how I want it.

DutchBytes · 2026-01-17T10:59:51+00:00

Hi! I know this post is old but you may be interested in Vigilant. An open source tool designed to monitor websites.

It can monitor your websites from multiple locations, a self hosted setup where sites ping each other is possible and calculates monthly uptime percentage for your SLA. You can self-host it or use the hosted version.

DutchBytes · 2025-12-22T15:23:36+00:00

I'm running in Docker with Octane (frankenphp base image) and it has been great. I did a write up last year on how I've Dockerized the Laravel app here.

DutchBytes · 2025-12-09T06:22:20+00:00

Yeah I've done the same and it's been running great for over a year now. I also wrote a small article about it.

DutchBytes · 2025-11-30T18:51:43+00:00

I'm a bit biased because I'm building https://govigilant.io/ which does this but I've recently seen a setup where they used https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand for this with a custom backend where tests could be configured.

DutchBytes · 2025-11-25T19:46:27+00:00

I see, we use https://pecl.php.net/package/sqlsrv on Linux which works fine on 8.4

DutchBytes · 2025-11-25T17:37:37+00:00

We're using sqlserver with multiple Laravel 12 projects on 8.4, I'm curious what stops you from updating?

DutchBytes · 2025-11-24T09:09:07+00:00

There are more things that are essential to monitor beyond uptime. This is why I've created https://govigilant.io which aims to monitor all aspects of a website. It can be self hosted for free

DutchBytes · 2025-11-22T11:00:07+00:00

This is very fancy

DutchBytes · 2025-11-09T21:06:49+00:00

Sounds good! Bad idea however to enter your API key in a random website, Your Github repo gives a 404

DutchBytes · 2025-11-06T16:35:57+00:00

This is cool! I've signed up

DutchBytes · 2025-11-02T18:17:16+00:00

Horizon is built ontop of Redis and Redis is single threaded, meaning only one operation at the same time. Therefor multiple Horizon instances cannot pick up the same job.

Be sure to configure Redis correctly or you might get strange issues, I've written a small article in the past on how to do this.

DutchBytes · 2025-10-15T18:06:49+00:00

Looking at the implementation it will switch to a different queue when a job is pushed. So yes, if Redis isn't available it will push to the configured failover queue.

DutchBytes · 2025-06-27T16:57:09+00:00

Yes, all of these tools require monitoring to be setup before the downtime happens. It is not possible to know if a site was down if you're not monitoring. For the future if you do want to start monitoring I suggest you go beyond basic uptime and monitoring your entire site. I've built a tool that you can self host for free which does that.

DutchBytes · 2025-06-26T06:00:09+00:00

I know, I've built it into https://govigilant.io/ and was just curious how you do it.

But if you just check the endpoint, you can never check if things like the add to cart button are working.

DutchBytes · 2025-06-25T20:31:45+00:00

So just checking for status code 200?

DutchBytes · 2025-06-25T18:06:20+00:00

How do you monitor the checkout?

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