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Search, filter and prune Laravel Telescope entries without the page freezing on big requests.

A fast, searchable viewer for Laravel Telescope, the debug assistant for the Laravel framework.

What is Telescope Inspector?

Laravel Telescope records every request, query, job, exception and log in your Laravel app. Its own screen, however, loads 50 entries at a time with their full content (request payload, headers, session, response). One heavy request on a page can make that page several MB, and the Telescope requests page stops loading. It also cannot search by route, status, job or user.

Telescope Inspector adds one page, /telescope-inspector, that reads Telescope's own API in small batches, keeps only a short summary of each entry, and lets you search and filter everything Telescope records. It adds no tables, migrations or jobs, and changes nothing in how Telescope records.

Features

• Every Telescope type: Requests, HTTP Client, Jobs, Commands, Schedule, Exceptions, Logs, Queries, Mail, Notifications, Events, Cache and Redis.
• Never freezes: fetches 10, 25 or 50 entries at a time; big entries are never drawn in the list.
• Search and filters: all-words search (route, controller, job class, SQL, message), plus method, status (2xx to 5xx), user (name, email or id), job status, log level, minimum duration, date range and Telescope tag. Scans older entries until 50 matches are found, with a Stop button.
• Request detail: overview, collapsible sections (anything over 20 KB starts closed, over 50 KB shows "Show all"), copy buttons, and everything recorded in the same request: queries with total time, slow count and repeated statements (possible N+1), logs, exceptions, jobs and HTTP calls. For a job it also shows what ran inside the worker.
• Prune by date: delete entries in a date range, optionally only some types and keeping exceptions. Quick ranges (older than 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, 7 days, or all entries), a live count and a confirmation before anything is removed.
• Light and dark theme: Auto (follows the operating system), Light or Dark, remembered per browser.
• Clean, shareable URLs: /telescope-inspector/requests/<uuid>/<batch>; refresh, Back/Forward and Ctrl-click work as usual. Press / to jump to the search box.
• Stays out of the way: its own page and endpoints are added to telescope.ignore_paths automatically, so using the inspector never fills Telescope with entries about the inspector.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 12 or 13 (Laravel 11 may work, but Composer now blocks its releases over security advisories, so it is not tested)
• laravel/telescope 5.x, installed and enabled

Installation

Install it the same way Telescope is installed in your project:

The service provider is discovered automatically. Open https://your-app.test/telescope-inspector.

Updating

Access

The page uses the same middleware as Telescope (config('telescope.middleware')), so whoever can open /telescope can open the inspector, and nobody else. Outside the local environment that is decided by the viewTelescope gate in app/Providers/TelescopeServiceProvider.php. Make sure that gate does not simply return true, or every signed-in user can read every recorded request.

Pruning

The Prune button calls two endpoints the package adds next to the page (with the same middleware): POST {path}/prune/preview (how many entries match) and POST {path}/prune (delete them). It deletes from Telescope's telescope_entries table in chunks, the same way php artisan telescope:prune does, and the entries' tags go with them. Every prune is written to the application log ("Telescope Inspector: entries pruned", with the user id, range, types and count).

• Needs Telescope's database storage driver.
• "To" is a whole minute and is included: To 10:30 removes everything up to 10:30:59.

• To let only some people prune, define a pruneTelescope gate, for example in app/Providers/TelescopeServiceProvider.php:

  When that gate exists the user must pass it as well as the Telescope gate. Without it, anyone who can open Telescope can prune (Telescope's own screen can already clear everything).

• To remove the feature entirely, set TELESCOPE_INSPECTOR_PRUNE=false.

Configuration

Optional. Publish the config file only if you need to change something:

Telescope's own path and domain settings are picked up automatically.

How it stays fast, and its limits

• Lists call POST {telescope}/telescope-api/{type} with a small take and a before cursor.
• Telescope's detail endpoint also returns every entry of the batch with no limit (thousands of queries for a heavy request), so the page asks the list endpoint filtered by batch_id instead and loads related entries 25 at a time.
• Telescope's API can only filter by tag on the server. A numeric user id is sent as Telescope's Auth:<id> tag; every other filter runs in the browser over the fetched batches, newest first. A search for something rare may page through many entries before it finds a match.
• An entry is still downloaded in full when it is part of a fetched batch; it is just never rendered.
• Times are the server's time, as Telescope stores them.

FAQ

Why does the Laravel Telescope requests page not load, or load very slowly? Telescope's list endpoint returns the full content of 50 entries at once. A few requests with large payloads or responses make that response several MB. Telescope Inspector asks for 10 to 50 entries at a time and only keeps a summary of each, so the list stays fast.

How do I search Laravel Telescope entries by URL, route or controller? Type any part of the URI or controller in the Search box. All words must match, so orders store finds POST /api/orders handled by OrderController@store.

How do I filter Telescope requests by user, status code or duration? Use the User (name, email or numeric id), Status (2xx to 5xx) and Min ms filters on the Requests tab.

How do I find slow queries or N+1 queries for one request? Open the request. The Queries tab underneath shows total query time, slow queries and repeated statements.

How do I prune Laravel Telescope entries by date? Click Prune, pick a quick range or a From/To date, optionally choose entry types, check the count and confirm. Pruning by schedule is still best done with php artisan telescope:prune.

Does it replace Laravel Telescope? No. Telescope keeps recording exactly as before; this is a faster, searchable screen on top of its data. The "Open in Telescope" link is always one click away.

Front-end assets

Bootstrap 5.3.3, Remix Icon 4.5.0, bootstrap-select 1.14.0-beta3, flatpickr 4.6.13 (plus its dark theme), SweetAlert2 11.22.5 and jQuery 3.7.1 (plus the Inter and JetBrains Mono fonts from Google Fonts) are loaded from jsDelivr / code.jquery.com with exact versions and SRI hashes. Nothing needs to be published or built. The viewer's browser needs internet access.

All recorded data is rendered as text (textContent), never as HTML.

Development

Tests run on Orchestra Testbench against Laravel 12 and 13 on PHP 8.2 to 8.4 (see .github/workflows/tests.yml).

All script partials run inside one function scope opened in inspector.blade.php, so they share helpers without globals. Each CSS/JS partial is wrapped in @verbatim so Blade never touches {{ }} or @ inside it; keep that when adding a partial.

Issue reporting

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue. Please include your Laravel, Telescope and PHP versions.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please add or update tests for your change and run composer test before opening the PR. See CHANGELOG.md for what changed in each release.

Credits

• Iftikhar
• Built on top of Laravel Telescope by the Laravel team.

License

Telescope Inspector is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.