mybeast/errors-laravel

The Laravel SDK of Errors (services.my-beast.com/errors). It works on PHP ≥ 8.2 with Laravel 12 and 13.

It does six things:

• captures every reported exception, scrubbed, and sends it to the service;
• measures requests and queued jobs for the Performance tab, once the host turns it on;
• hands browser pages their config and a signed client token;
• tells the service about releases (source maps, "it's live");
• receives the service's webhooks;
• erases a person's or an account's errors when the host asks.

Session recording is a separate product with its own SDK: mybeast/sessions-laravel.

Install

composer require mybeast/errors-laravel
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=mybeast-errors-config

MYBEAST_ERRORS_URL=https://services.my-beast.com/errors
MYBEAST_ERRORS_PUBLIC_KEY=pk_…
MYBEAST_ERRORS_SECRET=sk_….…
MYBEAST_ERRORS_SIGNING_KEY=sig_….…
MYBEAST_ERRORS_WEBHOOK_SECRET=whsec_….…
MYBEAST_ERRORS_ENVIRONMENT=production
# MYBEAST_ERRORS_RELEASE=<build>   default: APP_RELEASE, else the git commit (read from .git)

While the URL or the secret is missing or malformed, nothing is captured or sent. The SDK never throws at boot and never breaks a page. In tests, set MYBEAST_ERRORS_ENABLED=false (phpunit.xml) or use Errors::fake().

Is it connected? php artisan mybeast:errors-test prints what is set, checks in with the service at once and says whether Errors heard this app (its project and environment) or why not - a refused secret in so many words. No error is sent, so nobody is alerted. After that the scheduler's mybeast:errors-flush checks in once an hour (POST /v1/checkins, schemas/v1/checkin.schema.json), so the project's overview can tell an app with no errors from one that cannot reach it, and the project hears when an environment goes quiet.

Errors: nothing to write

The SDK hooks the exception handler's reportable(), so Laravel's dontReport list still applies. Every reported exception becomes an event (schemas/v1/error-event.schema.json) with:

• the exception chain, with source lines around your own frames;
• the last 30 breadcrumbs: SQL without values, log lines, the route or job;
• the route, the action, and parameter and field names (never values);
• the release, the environment, and who it happened to: the signed-in person's id, also on a page without the auth middleware (ids only - a subject or account that is not one, an e-mail say, is left off with one line in the log, and the error still goes; an environment name is made one: "EU.prod" is eu-prod);
• the request's id as your log lines carry it, so the issue opens exactly those lines in My Beast logs: the one mybeast/logs-laravel gives the request (and the jobs it queues) when you have it - neither SDK requires the other - else the request's X-Request-Id from a proxy (MYBEAST_ERRORS_REQUEST_ID_HEADER).

E-mails, IBANs, personal ids, phone numbers and tokens are scrubbed before anything leaves, source lines included - and in a URL's path too: /reset-password/9f8e… leaves as /reset-password/[token], ids stay readable. SQL breadcrumbs lose what raw SQL wrote into them, a database error keeps the driver's code ("General error: 1 no such table"), and under Octane each request starts with a clean trail. The service scrubs again.

Sending:

• An event goes to a spool file first, never the database (which may be what failed).
• The spool is sent right after the response, after each queued job, and every minute by mybeast:errors-flush, which the SDK puts on the scheduler.
• While the service is away, events wait in the spool (at most 5 000 files).
• Past the project's monthly limit (its package's), the service refuses the rest of the month's events and samples as monthly-limit. They are dropped, and the log says so once a month, and once when the service takes them again.

use MyBeast\Errors\Laravel\Capture\Identity;
use MyBeast\Errors\Laravel\Facades\Errors;

// AppServiceProvider::boot() - who it happened to, as ids: never a name or an e-mail. Without it, the signed-in
// person's id goes, read from the session when nothing has loaded them yet.
Errors::identifyUsing(fn (): ?Identity => auth()->check()
    ? new Identity(subject: (string) auth()->id())
    : null);

// Your own rule for personal data, after the built-in ones.
Errors::scrubUsing(fn (string $text): string => preg_replace('/\bCUST-\d+\b/', '[customer]', $text));

// The reference a customer can quote ("mention reference 7F3A9C21") - set before anything is sent.
$reference = Errors::lastReference();

Identity also takes account (the team or workspace they work in) and internal (true for your own staff) if your users have them: account: (string) auth()->user()->team_id, internal: (bool) auth()->user()->is_staff. Unlike the default, auth() loads the user when nothing has yet: one query, and if that fails too (the error may be the database's), the event goes without them.

Performance: off until you turn it on

MYBEAST_ERRORS_PERFORMANCE=true
# MYBEAST_ERRORS_PERFORMANCE_SAMPLE_RATE=0.1   the share of ordinary requests and jobs sent
# MYBEAST_ERRORS_PERFORMANCE_SLOW_MS=1000      every one at least this slow is sent too

It works only while errors are sent (the URL and the server secret are set). With it on, the SDK measures every request and queued job (schemas/v1/transaction.schema.json) and keeps a share of the ordinary ones plus every slow or failed one:

• a request is named by its route (GET /posts/{post}), never its URL, and a job by its class;
• its duration, its status, and how many database queries it ran and how long they took;
• its ten heaviest queries by shape: the SQL with every value taken out, and an IN list cut to (?);
• an N+1: one query shape run 5 times or more, with the line of your code that ran it (app/Http/Controllers/PostController.php:24, or the Blade view);
• its outgoing HTTP calls, by host (the SDK's own calls to the service are left out).

It never slows a request:

• The measuring is a few counters per query.
• A kept sample is written to its own spool after the response has gone out.
• mybeast:errors-flush sends the spool every minute.

On a page with 26 queries, measuring added about 0.05 ms to the response at the default 10 % (0.15 ms with every request kept).

A job run on the sync queue inside a request is measured on its own and also counts in the request. With performance off, nothing is hooked at all.

The browser's config

// An Inertia shared prop, or a Blade layout.
'errors' => $user
    ? Errors::clientConfig(subject: $user->id) // also account: and internal: (a bool), if your users have them
    : Errors::guestConfig(),

The result is {url, key, env, release, token, expires_at, token_url} for a signed-in page, or {url, key, env, release} for a guest's - also when the subject is not an id (it never throws while a page renders). It is null while the SDK is off. Hand it to @mybeast/errors' init().

A token lives token_ttl (30 minutes). A page left open asks GET /mybeast/errors/token (token_url, in the web group: the person's own session decides who) for a fresh one two minutes before it runs out, so its errors stay that person's instead of turning into a guest's. MYBEAST_ERRORS_TOKEN_PATH moves it; false in the config turns the route off.

Releases

Run this in your deploy, once the new release serves requests:

php artisan mybeast:errors-release   # --release=<build> --environment=<env> --sourcemaps=<dir> --files-only

• It uploads the browser bundle's source maps (*.js.map under config('mybeast-errors.sourcemaps_path')). Build with Vite sourcemap: 'hidden' and move the maps out of public/.
• Then it tells the service the release is live there. "It's fixed" notices waiting for a newer release go out at that moment.

Webhooks: "tell them we're on it / it's fixed"

The service knows people only by id, so it asks you to tell them. With MYBEAST_ERRORS_WEBHOOK_SECRET set, the SDK answers POST /mybeast/errors/webhook (MYBEAST_ERRORS_WEBHOOK_PATH). It checks X-MyBeast-Signature and refuses anything older than five minutes, then fires an event:

Event::listen(\MyBeast\Errors\Laravel\Events\CustomersShouldBeNotified::class, function ($notice) {
    // $notice->kind: 'working-on-it' | 'fixed'; $notice->people: [{subject, account, last_at, method, path}, …]
    // A delivery not answered 2xx comes again with the same $notice->deliveryId: act once per id.
});

Set the project's webhook URL in Errors: Settings → Events, links and webhook.

Erasing a person or an account

When an account is closed (or a person asks), erase what the service keeps of them - it needs the server secret (MYBEAST_ERRORS_SECRET=sk_….…):

$erased = Errors::eraseSubject($user->id);       // a person: their events, what they were told, their webhook entries, an internal mark
$erased = Errors::eraseAccount($user->team_id);  // an account (a team, a workspace): every event in it, whoever it happened to
// how many rows went or were emptied; null while the SDK is off or has no secret

Each throws MyBeast\Errors\Laravel\ErasureFailed when the service does not confirm it: call them from a queued job with retries, so an erasure is never lost to a network blip. Errors still waiting in the spool when it runs (the last minute's, the closing request's own) reach the service after it and are kept: delay the job a few minutes, or erase again then - an erasure that finds nothing answers 0.

The demo app

workbench/ is a small Laravel app with this SDK and performance on (Orchestra Workbench). It has a page with an N+1 (/posts/n-plus-one), the same page eager-loaded (/posts), a slow page, an outgoing call, and two queued jobs, one with an N+1 and one that fails.

1. Open the project in Errors locally (http://localhost:8024/errors; projects come from id) and make a server secret in its Settings → Keys.
2. Copy workbench/.env.example to workbench/.env and paste the secret (git leaves .env out).
3. Run the demo:

composer demo                                   # builds its database, asks for every page, sends what was measured
vendor/bin/testbench serve --port=8022          # or click through it yourself
vendor/bin/testbench mybeast:errors-flush       # then send what it measured

Then open the project's Performance tab.

vendor/bin/testbench leaves a copy of workbench/.env in testbench's skeleton (vendor/orchestra/testbench-core/laravel/). The test suite ignores it: phpunit.xml forces its own values.

Tests

$fake = Errors::fake();
report(new RuntimeException('boom'));
$fake->assertCaptured(fn (array $event) => $event['message'] === 'boom');

Contract

schemas/ is a copy of the Errors module's, services/schemas/errors. SchemaCopyTest fails when the two differ.

composer install && vendor/bin/phpunit

Releasing

Add the version to CHANGELOG.md, then tag it: git tag v0.2.0 && git push --tags. Packagist reads the tag through its GitHub hook; there is no version in composer.json. The Tests workflow runs on the tag as on every push: PHP 8.2 to 8.4 against Laravel 12 and 13 (Laravel 11 has unfixed advisories, so Composer will not install it).