Octane Exporter Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Observability for Laravel Octane services: Supports exposing Octane/worker-level metrics to Prometheus, enabling dashboards, alerting, and operational visibility for high-throughput Laravel services.
• Capacity planning and scaling: Helps teams validate Octane worker configuration, memory behavior, and scaling decisions using runtime metrics rather than guesswork.
• Incident response and SLO monitoring: Gives engineering and on-call teams a lightweight signal source to correlate application performance with infrastructure and deployment events.
• Build vs. buy: Favors adopting a focused package over building and maintaining a custom metrics exporter, provided the team already uses Prometheus/Grafana and the package’s metric coverage matches needs.
• Roadmap and upgrade risk: v1.1.0 adds Laravel 9.x and OpenSwoole support, reducing compatibility risk for teams planning or completing a Laravel 9 / OpenSwoole migration on Octane.
• Use cases: Internal APIs, high-throughput Laravel services, platform teams standardizing Octane observability, and teams wanting Prometheus metrics without adopting a full APM suite.

When to Consider This Package

• You run Laravel Octane and need Prometheus-scrapeable runtime/worker metrics.
• You already have, or are willing to operate, Prometheus/Grafana or a compatible metrics stack.
• You are on Laravel 9.x or planning OpenSwoole; v1.1.0 removes a key compatibility blocker.
• You want a lightweight, low-integration-effort observability layer and can own scrape configuration, dashboards, alerts, and retention.
• You need platform-level operational visibility more than deep application tracing or business analytics.

Look elsewhere if you are not using Laravel Octane, need full APM, distributed tracing, profiling, or log aggregation, require a managed observability SaaS, do not operate Prometheus-compatible tooling, or need metric coverage beyond what this package exposes.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This is a low-cost observability add-on for Laravel Octane services. It improves reliability visibility, supports capacity planning, and can reduce incident diagnosis time by feeding Octane metrics into existing monitoring. The v1.1.0 Laravel 9.x and OpenSwoole support lowers risk for teams on or moving to those platforms. It is not a replacement for full APM.

For engineering: Adopt this package when you need Prometheus metrics from Laravel Octane without building a custom exporter. v1.1.0 adds Laravel 9.x and OpenSwoole compatibility, making it more viable for current stacks. Engineering ownership is limited to scrape configuration, dashboards, alert rules, and validating that the package’s metric coverage meets operational needs.