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A lightweight Laravel package for recording failed queue jobs and reviewing them from a simple web dashboard.

The package listens for Laravel's JobFailed event, stores the failed job connection, queue, payload, and exception message in a dedicated table, and provides a dashboard where failed jobs can be inspected and queued for retry.

Features

• Records failed queue jobs automatically.
• Stores failed job metadata in the failed_jobs_monitor table.
• Provides a dashboard at /queue-monitor by default.
• Allows failed jobs to be pushed back onto their original queue.
• Supports configurable route path and middleware.
• Auto-registers with Laravel package discovery.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 10, 11, 12, or 13
• A configured Laravel queue connection

Installation

Install the package with Composer:

composer require samirlama/laravel-queue-monitor

Run the package migration:

php artisan migrate

Laravel package discovery will register the service provider automatically.

Configuration

Publish the configuration file if you want to customize the dashboard route or middleware:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=queue-monitor-config

This creates config/queue-monitor.php:

return [
    'route_path' => 'queue-monitor',
    'middleware' => ['web'],
];

Route Path

By default, the dashboard is available at:

/queue-monitor

Change route_path to mount the dashboard somewhere else:

'route_path' => 'admin/queue-monitor',

Middleware

The default middleware is web. For production applications, protect the dashboard with authentication or authorization middleware:

'middleware' => ['web', 'auth'],

Usage

Start your queue worker as usual:

php artisan queue:work

When a queued job fails, Laravel dispatches a JobFailed event. This package records that event in the failed_jobs_monitor table.

Visit the dashboard to review failed jobs:

http://your-app.test/queue-monitor

Each recorded failure shows:

• Queue name
• Exception message
• Failure timestamp
• Retry action

Retrying Jobs

The dashboard retry button pushes the original job payload back onto the recorded connection and queue.

After retrying a job, make sure a queue worker is running for that queue:

php artisan queue:work

Database Table

The package creates a failed_jobs_monitor table with these columns:

• id
• connection
• queue
• payload
• exception
• created_at
• updated_at

This table is separate from Laravel's default failed_jobs table.

Local Development

After cloning the package, install dependencies:

composer install

If you are testing the package inside a Laravel application, add it as a local path repository in the application's composer.json:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "path",
            "url": "../laravel-queue-monitor"
        }
    ]
}

Then require it from the Laravel application:

composer require samirlama/laravel-queue-monitor:@dev

Security

The dashboard exposes failed job payloads and exception messages, which may contain sensitive data. Do not expose it publicly without authentication and authorization middleware.

License

Laravel Queue Monitor is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.