Laravel and Symfony console command monitoring

Recently the support for wildcard was introduced in the Symfony library to help developers turn-off monitoring in some parts of their applications using URL path.

/api/users*

It was already supported in the Laravel package.

I received a lot of feedback from our users to make it possible also for commands. And it’s what this library update is about.

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Laravel/Symfony console command monitoring

Typically the console commands in the Laravel and Symfony frameworks are organized by namespace like:

make:migration
make:middleware
make:model

Before this release you have to manually add all the commands you want to exclude from your monitoring metrics in the inspector configuration file.

'ignore_commands' => [
    'make:migration',
    'make:middleware',
    'make:model',
],

Ignore Console Commands With Wildcard

Now instead of forcing you to list all commands you want to ignore one by one we introduced the support for the wildcard character “*” to make this configuration a lot easier and the inspector configuration file shorter.

You can change the configuration above with a single line in the inspector configuration file:

'ignore_commands' => [
    'make*',
],

In the same way you did URLs:

'ignore_urls' => [
    'api/users*',
],

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