# laravel/telescope

An elegant debug assistant for the Laravel framework.

Repository: https://github.com/laravel/telescope
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/telescope
Homepage: https://laravel.com/docs/telescope
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: laravel, debugging, monitoring
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:57:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 97, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2932, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 22, "gap_med": 14.0, "n_releases_24m": 37}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5216, forks 667 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:13.143193+00:00)

## What it is
Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for the Laravel framework, providing a web dashboard with insight into requests, exceptions, logs, database queries, queued jobs, mail, notifications, cache operations, and scheduled tasks. It is installed as a Composer package and is primarily intended as a companion to local Laravel development environments.

## Use cases
- inspect incoming HTTP requests and exceptions in a Laravel app
- view database queries executed by a Laravel application
- debug queued jobs and scheduled tasks
- monitor mail, notifications, and cache operations during development
- dump variables and view log entries from a web dashboard

## When to choose
- you develop Laravel applications and want deep visibility into framework internals
- you need a ready-made dashboard for debugging requests, queries, and jobs
- you want a dev-only debugging tool installable with --dev

## When to avoid
- your application is not built on Laravel
- you need production-grade APM or metrics monitoring rather than a debug dashboard
- you use a non-PHP stack

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, logging, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, backend, developer-tools
- platform: php, self-hosted
- tags: laravel, debugging, dashboard, devtools, web-server

## Member repositories
- laravel/telescope (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.143193+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:00:10.665526+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - site_page: https://laravel.com/framework/docs/structure (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:18.017738+00:00, sha e503d810e5d9)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/framework/docs/frontend (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:18.019635+00:00, sha 2aa657878092)
  - site_page: https://laravel.com/framework/docs/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:18.005279+00:00, sha 17e5de1153b9)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.