Elastic APM PHP Agent - Laravel

Additional Features for Elastic APM PHP Agent when using Laravel 9+ Framework

Features

• Artisan Transaction Name with arguments and options
• Job Transaction for queue:work and queue:listen
• Job Process in Job Transaction
• Controller Process in Request Transaction

Installation

1. Install Elastic APM PHP Agent

Debian 11

1. Install Elastic APM PHP Agent according to the instructions at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/php/1.x/setup.html
2. Configure APM PHP Agent until it appears in phpinfo() (PHP FPM) and also appears in php --ini (PHP Cli)
3. Make sure the configuration works using Kibana (which is connected to the Elastic APM Server) on the Observability - APM menu where the elastic_apm.service_name value in the php ini file is shown as a Service

Docker

1. Use unpad-nginx-php8.1 Docker Image with version 1.1+
2. Make sure to use this Environments below to running the docker container

1. Make sure the docker environments works using Kibana (which is connected to the Elastic APM Server) on the Observability - APM menu where the APM_SERVICE_NAME value in the container environment is shown as a Service

2. Install Package

Once the PHP APM Elastic Agent is installed, install this package using composer

$ composer require unpad-dev/elastic-apm-php-agent-laravel

Usage for Job Process

Attach Middleware \UnpadDev\ElasticApm\Middleware\JobMiddleware to every Job in the job's middleware method to show Job Process in Elastic APM

use UnpadDev\ElasticApm\Middleware\JobMiddleware;

/**
* Get the middleware the job should pass through.
*
* @return array
*/
public function middleware()
{
    return [new JobMiddleware];
}