naijacloud/argus-laravel

The official Laravel SDK for Argus, Naijacloud's monitoring. It reports exceptions, traces requests, queries, jobs and outgoing HTTP calls, sends your logs, and checks in your scheduled tasks, with one key: your app's DSN.

It builds on naijacloud/argus, implements the Argus SDK contract argus.sdk/1, and supports Laravel 10, 11, 12 and 13 on a patched PHP: 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, 8.5.12 or newer (the php2shell fix, CVE-2026-109618/109619). Composer refuses older releases on purpose.

Install

composer require naijacloud/argus-laravel

Then add your DSN to .env. Copy it from your source in Argus:

ARGUS_DSN=https://<key>@argus-in.naijacloud.com/<id>

That's all. The package is discovered automatically: there is no provider to register and no file to edit. Check it works:

php artisan argus:test

It sends one test event and tells you whether Argus accepted it, or why not.

Apps hosted on Naijacloud get ARGUS_DSN, ARGUS_RELEASE and ARGUS_ENVIRONMENT set when the Argus tab is on. Without a DSN the package does nothing, so local development and CI need no changes.

What you get

With only the DSN set:

• Exceptions reported through Laravel's own handler. Whatever Laravel reports reaches Argus, and whatever it doesn't (validation errors, 404s, your dontReport list) doesn't. report($e) works too.
• Each error carries:
  • the route as its culprit (GET /orders/{order}) and the route name as a tag;
  • the signed-in user's id;
  • the request URL, without its query string;
  • breadcrumbs of the queries, log messages and HTTP calls that led to it.
• Request tracing: a span per request, named after its route.
  • It continues a W3C traceparent from the caller.
  • Each database query becomes a child span. The SQL is sent with ? placeholders, never the bound values.
  • Each Http:: call becomes a child span, and carries a traceparent so the service you call joins the trace.
• Queued jobs:
  • each job runs in a span that continues the trace of the request that dispatched it;
  • a failed job is reported with its class, queue and connection as tags;
  • workers send after every job, and start each job with a clean scope.
• Sent after the response: under PHP-FPM, everything goes out after the response has reached the visitor, within a 2-second budget.

Logs

The argus log channel is defined for you. Add it to your stack in .env:

LOG_STACK=single,argus

Every Log::info(), Log::warning() and so on now also reaches Argus Logs, with its context as attributes and the request's trace id. On Laravel 10, or with a custom config/logging.php, add 'argus' to your stack channel's channels instead.

Log::channel('argus')->info('order {id} placed', ['id' => $order->id]);

Set the lowest level sent with ARGUS_LOG_LEVEL (default debug). An exception logged at error or above is also sent as an Argus error, once, even when Laravel reports it too.

Scheduled tasks

Create a cron monitor in Argus, then name it on the task:

// routes/console.php (Laravel 11+) or app/Console/Kernel.php
Schedule::command('invoices:send')->daily()->argusMonitor('nightly-invoices');

Argus hears when the task starts, and whether it succeeded or failed (with its exit code). If the monitor doesn't exist yet, the check-ins are ignored and the task runs as usual.

In your code

The Argus facade is registered for you:

use NaijaCloud\Argus\Laravel\Facades\Argus;

Argus::captureException($e, ['tags' => ['provider' => 'paystack']]);
Argus::captureMessage('Webhook signature mismatch', 'warning');
Argus::setTag('tenant', $tenant->slug);

Argus::count('orders.placed', 1, ['method' => 'card']);
Argus::distribution('checkout.ms', $elapsedMs, [], 'ms');

Argus::trace('charge card', fn () => $paystack->charge($order));

if (Argus::isOn('new-checkout', (string) $user->id)) {
    // …
}

Argus::withMonitor('import-rates', fn () => $this->importRates());

Everything in naijacloud/argus works too. That includes the static NaijaCloud\Argus\Argus class, with Argus::logs(), Argus::metrics(), Argus::cron() and Argus::flags(), and it uses the same client.

Configuration

Everything has a default. To change one, publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=argus-config

The config file also has these settings:

• tracing.*: turn request, query, job and HTTP-client spans on or off, and set ignore_paths (up by default).
• breadcrumbs.*: turn each kind of breadcrumb on or off.
• ignore_exceptions: exception classes never sent.
• before_send: a callable that changes or drops events. Set it in the published file, since .env cannot hold one.

Works with php artisan config:cache: the DSN is read in the config file, as Laravel requires.

Octane and queue workers

• Octane: the request middleware sends after each request, and clears the user and tags between requests.
• Queue workers (queue:work, Horizon): Argus sends after each job, and each job starts with a clean scope.
• schedule:work: sends each check-in as it happens.

Privacy

On by default:

• Sensitive values: passwords, tokens, secrets, card numbers, BVNs, Authorization headers and JWTs are replaced with [Filtered].
• Not sent: cookies, request bodies and query strings.
• SQL: sent with ? placeholders, never the bound values.
• The user: only the id is sent, unless you set ARGUS_SEND_DEFAULT_PII=true.

Argus filters again on arrival.

License

MIT