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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