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Lessons from the deep end
20 months ago, we started building Performance Monitoring as Flare’s next big feature, never expecting Laravel’s rapid commercial growth to put us in direct competition with their own tools. This is our honest take on those 20 months went, how we’re adapting to this new reality, and where we’re heading next while staying true to who we are. A dive into the deep end, without knowing how far down it goes.
Alex
Connect your AI agent to Flare to automatically fix production and performance problems in PHP and Laravel projects
You can now use our MCP server to connect your AI agent to Flare. This way your AI has all context it needs to diagnose and fix production and performance problems.
Freek
Using ClickHouse at Flare to aggregate data
We're building the next chapter of Flare with performance monitoring, in this first chapter we take a look at aggregating data with a new database called ClickHouse
Ruben
Automating styles with data-slot
In this post, we explore how the data-slot attribute, inspired by Adam Wathan’s Laracon US 2024 presentation, can streamline React component design. By dynamically adjusting styles based on the children within components, we eliminate the need for extra props and reduce complex conditional logic. Using Tailwind CSS, we show how a simple button component can automatically adapt its layout and appearance based on its content.
Sébastien
Building a micro dependency container, because why not?
When rewriting the Flare framework-agnostic PHP package we needed a dependency container, so we've created our own one!
Ruben
Customizing error grouping
We now support custom grouping of errors.
Ruben
Perfecting Flare: one annoyance at a time
Over the next few months, we're committed to fixing bugs - not just in your code, but in our app too. We’ve got a bunch of improvements lined up to make Flare even better!
Alex
Browser extension errors begone!
Our team has received a lot of feedback about errors caused by browser extensions flooding projects. We have listened! In the latest version of our JavaScript client, errors triggered by browser extensions will not be reported anymore.
Sebastian
Using 1password for Laravel environment variables
Secret management isn't the most thrilling part of development, but it's crucial. Let's look at some options, why we chose the 1Password CLI and how to set it up.
Alex
When everything fails, you can always trust the Laravel rescue helper
Laravel's handy rescue helper to the ... rescue!
Ruben
Check your Laravel Horizon failed jobs from Flare
From now on, you can quickly retry a failed Laravel Horizon job without hassle.
Ruben
Laravel's report helper: a must for error handling
For any application, handling errors gracefully is crucial for maintaining a smooth user experience. While PHP's try-catch statements are great at catching known exceptions and preventing them from crashing your application, they also make exceptions go unnoticed. What if you also want to log and report an exception without bringing your application to a screeching halt? That's where Laravel's report helper steps into the spotlight.
Alex
Flare Microsoft Teams migration
Microsoft deprecated the old way of receiving notifications in Teams, read in this article how to upgrade your Flare settings to keep receiving notifications in Microsoft Teams.
Ruben
Handled exceptions
We now mark exceptions as handled when they don't crash your application.
Ruben
WeakMaps a hidden gem in PHP
In PHP 8.0 WeakMaps were added, a mystical feature we never used until we had a complicated issue to solve.
Ruben
Prioritizing exceptions
You can now set a priority for each exception to find out what needs to be fixed first.
Ruben
Running Ignition on five years of Laravel
How to fix bugs for packages used by all versions of Laravel released in the past five years?
Ruben
Introducing Laravel Error Share
Share your errors to Flare from the new default Laravel error page.
Freek
Creating issues is now easier than ever
From now on, you prefill some info about the error in issues.
Ruben
Assigning a user to an error
In our latest release we've added support for assigning an error to a user of your team.
Niels
Rethinking deploys at Flare
Flare has long relied on locally running Laravel Envoy for our app deployments. However, as the application and infrastructure evolves, so do the challenges. This article documents some of our endeavors to come up with a more robust solution in 2024 while keeping our deploys as simple as possible.
Alex
Introducing: Linear integration
We're proud to share that errors on Flare can now be associated with Linear. In this post, we'll tell you all about it!
Niels
Ignition and Flare can now display Laravel 11's context
Laravel 11 recently introduced a nice new feature called Context. Ignition and Flare have both been updated to collect and show all context.
Freek
How we stopped a DDoS attack at Laracon
Laracon EU 2024 was an awesome conference, we were sponsoring with Flare and having a blast until a DDoS attack hit us.
Ruben
Migrating from MySQL to Postgres using Laravel's query builder
We've recently switched our database infrastructure from MySQL to Postgres, this is a high level overview on how we used Laravel's query builder to migrate our data.
Rias
Introducing our new suite of JavaScript packages
We released our new suite of JavaScript packages. With updates for our JavaScript, React, Vue, and Vite plugins.
Sebastian
Enhancing error reporting with custom context and glows
Using custom context and glows adds extra information to error reports, helping you quickly understand and fix problems in your Laravel applications.
Zuzana
Flare ❤️ GitLab
It is integration month! After Jira we're launching another integration: Gitlab.
Ruben
How we built our GitLab integration
A few days ago, we added a GitLab integration. In this blog post, we'll talk about the road to that integration and our struggles.
Ruben
Introducing Jira Integration with Flare
Connect your Flare errors with Jira issues
Ruben
You can now give team members access to specific projects
We've improved user management on Flare.
Freek
Leveraging Cloudflare Workers for Edge API Authentication
Learn how Cloudflare Workers in Flare enable edge-based API authentication, effectively filtering out unauthorized requests and enhancing performance for your application.
Alex
Our Slack integration now supports unfurling
Collaborating in Slack to solve your exceptions just got a lot better with unfurling. We'll also do a bit of a code dive into how to integrate Slack unfurling into a Laravel application.
Rias
Building a flexible yet abstract external integrations Structure
We created a new structure for external integrations like GitHub and Jira which allows us to add these kinds of integrations a lot quicker.
Ruben
Why error tracking is crucial for your application
Errors will inevitably occur in your application. There is no way around it. If you notice them while working locally, you can fix them immediately. However, if your application is already live, it gets more tricky because you are not the only person triggering errors anymore. This is where error tracking software like Flare comes in handy.
Christoph
Introducing the Flare affiliate program
Earn money by referring users to Flare
Freek
New teams will now see an example project
This will make it easier for newcomers to get familiar with Flare
Freek
Unveiling error notes and the activity feed
Today we're introducing the error activity feed and notes.
Ruben
Web animation wizardry
Picture this: a bunch of developers, most of them back-enders, are given a Figma design file to turn into the new homepage for Flare. We set out to build our brand-new marketing site with a sprinkle of animations. Here is how we crafted them.
Sam
You can now log in using your Google or GitHub account
Here's how you can implement our log in flow in your Laravel app
Rias
Managing production environment variables for Laravel deployments
Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone... unless they're managed right in your Laravel deployment! Say goodbye to plaintext perils and .env file follies. For Flare we explored some alternative solutions like config servers, the env:encrypt command and git-secret to keep your production environment variables safe and sound. Using git-secret's with user-specific access control and PGP encryption, managing environment variables becomes a breeze.
Alex
PHP stack trace arguments have landed in Flare
We now show the arguments used with each function or method call, in this blogpost we go through the implementation of it.
Ruben
Flare 2.0 has been launched!
These past months, we've been busy redesigning our entire service. We're very proud to launch it today.
Sebastian
Flare and Ignition now offer AI-powered solutions
Today, we're adding AI-powered solutions to Flare. This means we can suggest a solution for almost any error: the AI will likely suggest a helpful suggestion for most errors.
Rias
Sensitive parameters in PHP 8.2
Debugging errors can leak sensitive information, let's see how we can solve this using PHP 8.2
Ruben
Caching Inertia's SSR responses
SSR Inertia and response cache: the ultimate performance and SEO combo!
Alex
Flare 2.0 is right around the corner
Good things are coming!
Rias
Changing your larger-than-average MySQL table
We're still working on our redesign and are close to release. Today we started tackling an issue where the performance of the error page was too slow for us. In the end, we needed to change the structure of the error occurrences table, which is a lot harder than it seems.
Ruben
Fetching data to render complex graphs in Flare
The new version of Flare has a lot of graphs, but how do we calculate the data
Ruben
🐟 Introducing Flare Roulette™
We're introducing Flare Roulette™ today. Let's make bug-fixing great again!
Ruben
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