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A Laravel package to monitor application health, including:

• Database connection & latency
• Ping status for external hosts
• Queue sizes
• Cron heartbeat
• Disk space

Supports Laravel 10, 11, and 12.

Installation

Require the package via Composer:

composer require MattYeend/health-status

Publish Config & Views

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MattYeend\HealthStatus\HealthStatusServiceProvider" --tag=config
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MattYeend\HealthStatus\HealthStatusServiceProvider" --tag=views

Configuration

The published file config/healthstatus.php contains:

• Hosts to ping
• Queues to check
• Cron heartbeat settings
• Disk space thresholds
• Database response time thresholds
• HTTP endpoint settings
• Middleware for endpoint protection Example:

'pings' => [
    [
        'name' => 'google',
        'host' => '8.8.8.8',
        'port' => 53,
        'timeout' => 2,
    ],
],

Health Endpoint

By default:

• Web view: /healthstatus
• JSON: /healthstatus/json You can change http.endpoint in config/healthstatus.php.

Cron Heartbeat

In Laravel 10, 11

Add to app/Console/Kernel.php:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule): void
{
    $schedule->command('healthstatus:cron-heartbeat')->everyMinute();
}

In Laravel 12

Add to routes/console.php:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;

Schedule::command('healthstatus:cron-heartbeat')->everyMinute();

Then make sure your server runs Laravel’s scheduler:

* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Example Output

JSON

{
  "status": "ok",
  "checks": {
    "database": { "status": "ok", "response_time_ms": 15.3, "connection": "mysql" },
    "pings": { "status": "ok", "hosts": { "google": { "status": "ok" } } },
    "queues": { "status": "ok", "queues": { "default": { "status": "ok", "size": 0 } } },
    "cron": { "status": "ok", "last_run": "2025-08-12T15:20:00Z", "age_seconds": 10 },
    "disks": { "status": "ok", "disks": { "root": { "status": "ok", "free_percent": 75.1 } } }
  },
  "timestamp": "2025-08-12T15:20:10Z"
}

Securing the Endpoint

Add middleware in config/healthstatus.php:

'middleware' => ['auth.basic'],

Testing

Run the included tests:

vendor/bin/phpunit

License

This package is licensed under the MIT License.

Contributing

Feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests for improvements or new features!