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PHP apps can be deceptively simple — until something starts slowing down. Maybe it’s a page load that takes a few seconds too long, or maybe your server costs are creeping up without a clear reason. That’s where performance monitoring comes in. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to monitor and improve the performance of a PHP application. You’ll learn how to use profiling and tracing to identify bottlenecks in your code, and how to optimize your app.

If you're building web applications and care about your users, Laravel breadcrumbs can help you debug why you're seeing an error, giving you greater insight into what users are experiencing. It's easy to take advantage of this feature and add breadcrumbs without much extra configuration, especially if you're already using Honeybadger. Here's a quick walkthrough.

That moment when your PHP application runs flawlessly on your local machine but crashes in production—we've all been there. The key difference between struggling with issues and resolving them efficiently often comes down to understanding PHP error logs. This guide will help you move from trial-and-error debugging to a structured approach for identifying and fixing problems faster.

This guide explains how errors work in PHP and how to debug them efficiently using logging functions and Sentry. The information in this guide is correct for PHP 8 and perhaps above, depending on how much future PHP versions change.

We all know time is precious, especially when your application relies on tasks that need to be done repeatedly. The Laravel Scheduler is the tool that helps you automate and manage those tasks effortlessly. But how does it work, and what makes it so powerful? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to get started.

PHP 8.4 introduces several exciting features, improvements, and optimizations. This blog enhances usability, performance, and security, paving the way for more efficient and expressive coding. Let’s dive into the most notable features of PHP 8.4.

When it comes to building interactive, scalable, and data-driven websites and applications, you may consider a combination of PHP with MySQL. Integrating PHP as a server-side language with MySQL as a relational database allows for dynamic content generation, user authentication, form handling, and easier data management. In the article, we’ll explore several methods to connect PHP with a MySQL database, including the mysqli and PDO (PHP Data Objects) extensions.

Great news, Laravel friends! You can now monitor the performance of your Laravel apps with Honeybadger. Yes, you read that right: Laravel performance monitoring in Honeybadger! Many of you have asked for this, and we're excited to tell you about it. Earlier this year, we launched Honeybadger Insights, a new logging and performance monitoring tool bundled with Honeybadger.

In a perfect world, there wouldn’t be any errors or bugs in production applications. However, we don’t live in a perfect world, and from experience, you know there is no such thing as a bug-free application. If you are using the Laravel framework, you can leverage its log tracking and error logging to catch bugs early and enhance the performance of your Laravel-based application.