Metrics Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Observability roadmap: Enables application-level metrics (request rates, error rates, latency, business KPIs) to support SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and incident response without building a custom metrics layer.
• Build vs. buy: Favors adopting a maintained open-source package over in-house counters/timers/gauges, reducing engineering maintenance and technical debt.
• Framework upgrade planning: v2.1.0 adds Symfony 7 support and tests on new PHP versions, lowering risk for Laravel/PHP upgrade initiatives that depend on Symfony components.
• Use cases: Instrumenting feature adoption, capacity planning, performance regression detection, and service health monitoring.

When to Consider This Package

• You need a lightweight, framework-agnostic metrics abstraction for PHP/Laravel with minimal dependencies.
• You want active maintenance and confirmed compatibility with Symfony 7 and newer PHP runtimes.
• You can integrate with your existing metrics backend (e.g., StatsD, Prometheus) and prefer open-source over vendor lock-in.
• Look elsewhere if you need full APM, distributed tracing, out-of-box Laravel dashboards, vendor-managed agents, or advanced aggregation/alerting without additional tooling.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

• Executives: A low-cost, low-risk way to add application metrics; active maintenance and Symfony 7 support protect the upgrade path and avoid custom instrumentation debt.
• Engineering: Simple to adopt, forward-compatible with modern PHP/Symfony, and validated on new PHP versions. It complements existing monitoring rather than replacing full APM.