Get the client IP address in Laravel – Fast tips

In this article, I will share with you how to get the client IP address using the Laravel Request class.

You have three options to invoke the \Illuminate\Http\Request class:

// Using the helper function
echo request()->ip();

// Using the Facade
echo \Request::ip();

// Using the underlying method directly
echo \Request::getClientIp(true);

How to use the IP address to monitor your navigation sessions

The Inspector middleware allows you to exlude traffic from your monitoring data with a simple configuration:

/*
 |---------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Web request url to ignore
 |---------------------------------------------------------------------
 |
 | Add at this list the url schemes that you don't want monitoring
 | in your Inspector dashboard. You can also use wildcard expression (*).
 |
 */
 
'ignore_url' => [
    'telescope*',
    'vendor/telescope*',
    'horizon*',
    'vendor/horizon*',
],

If you need to implement a custom logic, the middleware is also designed to be extended.

<?php

use \Inspector\Laravel\Middleware\WebRequestMonitoring;


class InspectorFilterMonitoringMiddleware extends WebRequestMonitoring
{
    /**
     * Determine if Inspector should record current request.
     *
     * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
     * @return bool
     */
    protected function shouldRecorded($request): bool
    {
        // Monitor requests coming from your IP addresses (e.g. for debugging purpose)
        return in_array($request->ip(), ['xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx']);
    }
}

Overwriting the shouldRecorded() method, you can implement a custom condition to decide which routes should be ignored by Inspector.

Check out the complete tutorial in the official documentation:

https://docs.inspector.dev/guides/laravel/http-requests-monitoring#ignore-http-requests

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