The Inspector blog

Tutorials and practical advice on monitoring, performance and scaling PHP applications in production.

6 February 2024

Introduction to Application Monitoring

Application Monitoring and control course from Inspector Academy. Gain the knowledge to evaluate the right monitoring strategy and tools.

28 December 2023

How to use built in PHP Attributes and how to create custom Attributes class to enforce validation. PHP library example.

19 December 2023

Releasing the ability to group monitored applications into Projects. Easily organize and manage monitoring data.

19 December 2023

How to duplicate a table in MySQL. How to import data or import only the table structure with indexes, keys, ans auto_increments.

19 October 2023

How to resolve the Integrity constraint violation error when adding a new column to a database table. Tips using Laravel Migrations.

16 October 2023

If you use Guzzle Http Client to interact with external services, you can learn how to monitor each Http call in real-time.

5 October 2023

Post your feature requests ideas and contribute to the roadmap for making Inspector the best monitoring tool for developers.

2 October 2023

Searching for specific elements within a PHP associative array. Performance banchmarks using native array functions vs foreach.

25 September 2023

Enable strict typing mode in PHP with declare(strict_types=1). Understand its implications with code examples.

13 September 2023

Traversing, filtering and manipulating data with PHP iterators. How to create custom Iterator and FilterIterator.

16 August 2023

Differences between x86 and Graviton ARM servers and how we've been able to reduce our energy consumption and CPU usage by 40%.

16 August 2023

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