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Laravel OutboundIQ

Website & dashboard: outboundiq.dev · Documentation: outboundiq.dev/docs

OutboundIQ for Laravel is API Intelligence — not just monitoring.

It automatically tracks every outbound API call your app makes and gives you programmatic answers to questions like:

• “Is this provider actually healthy for my traffic?”
• “Which provider should I use right now?”
• “Is a single endpoint degrading even though the status page is green?”

Why this exists

If your app depends on third-party APIs, you’ve lived this:

• “Stripe is down? We found out from Twitter…”
• “Which provider should we failover to?”
• “Is it our code, or is the API having issues?”
• “Everything looks green… but users are failing.”

OutboundIQ makes those dependencies visible and actionable.

What you get

Automatic outbound-call tracking (Laravel-native)

OutboundIQ auto-tracks Laravel HTTP Client calls and captures:

• URL, method, status code, duration
• request/response headers + bodies (see security note below)
• failures + error messages
• user context (from Auth::user() when available)

API Intelligence methods (the differentiator)

OutboundIQ exposes three methods you can call from your app:

• OutboundIQ::recommend($serviceName) → pick the best provider right now
• OutboundIQ::providerStatus($providerSlug) → pre-flight provider health checks
• OutboundIQ::endpointStatus($endpointSlug) → endpoint-level metrics + schema stability

Quickstart (under 5 minutes)

1) Install

2) Add your API key

Get your API key from outboundiq.dev — sign in, open your project, and copy the key from project settings. Then add:

3) (Optional) Publish config

4) Run the integration test

This verifies config and makes tracked requests:

5) Make any outbound request

Laravel HTTP Client calls are tracked automatically:

Open your OutboundIQ dashboard and you’ll see the transaction.

API Intelligence examples

These examples show the decision contract you’ll build around: decision.action = proceed | caution | avoid | unavailable

recommend(): choose the best provider before users feel failure

providerStatus(): pre-flight checks for critical operations

endpointStatus(): detect “one green dashboard, one broken endpoint”

Endpoint slugs are auto-generated (provider + method + path). Find them in the OutboundIQ dashboard under Endpoints.

Tracking options

Automatic tracking (Laravel HTTP Client)

Any Http::get / Http::post / … call is tracked automatically.

Guzzle wrapper (if you call Guzzle directly)

Manual tracking (custom clients / edge cases)

Configuration

You can configure OutboundIQ via config/outboundiq.php (or .env):

Troubleshooting

No data showing up

• Confirm OUTBOUNDIQ_KEY is set
• Confirm OUTBOUNDIQ_ENABLED=true

• Run:

• Check Laravel logs (storage/logs) for errors when flushing metrics

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+ (PHP 8.3+ required for Laravel 13)
• Laravel / Illuminate 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x

Security & privacy note

OutboundIQ tracks outbound-call metadata and can capture headers/bodies for debugging. Be intentional about what you send to third parties and review your account/project settings for any redaction or data controls.

Support

Email: [email protected]