Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Laritor

We compiled every detail on pricing, data retention, privacy, and performance impact so your team can evaluate Laritor with confidence.

What is Laritor?

Laritor is a performance monitoring and observability platform for Laravel applications. It captures requests, logs, queries, tasks, and alerts to help developers detect issues early.

Is Laritor an APM or observability tool for Laravel?

Laritor is a Laravel-first observability and performance monitoring platform that combines APM-style tracing with logs, metrics, alerts, and AI insights.

What makes Laritor Laravel-specific?

Laritor instruments Laravel workflows like HTTP requests, Artisan commands, queues, scheduled tasks, health checks, and database queries without manual instrumentation.

Can Laritor monitor background queues and scheduled tasks?

Yes. Laritor tracks queued jobs and scheduled tasks as first-class events so you can monitor performance and failures.

Does Laritor support feature flags?

Yes. Laritor tracks feature flag usage so you can understand how flags affect performance and errors.

Can I monitor server health with Laritor?

Yes. Laritor captures server metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk usage to correlate infrastructure health with application performance.

Can I send custom user attributes to Laritor?

Yes. You can include custom user attributes and contextual data (for example team, role, or subscription status) to enrich traces and logs.

What is an Event in Laritor?

An event in Laritor is defined as any entry which can be monitored. Examples are requests, commands, scheduled tasks, health checks, task scheduler, queued jobs, queries, cache hits, outbound requests, logs, exceptions, mails, notifications, etc.

How is Laritor Priced?

Laritor is billed based on usage. The Free plan includes 300K events per month. Pro starts at $10 and includes 20M events per month, with $0.15 per extra 100K events. For 300M+ events, the Custom plan offers a flat monthly rate.

How long does Laritor retain data?

Laritor retains data for 30 days on Free and Pro. Custom plans can include longer retention.

Does Laritor provide AI-powered insights?

Yes. Laritor uses AI to surface bottlenecks and optimization recommendations to help teams resolve performance issues faster.

Which AI providers does Laritor integrate with?

Laritor integrates with OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Ollama, and xAI for AI-driven insights.

is there a limit on Events Usage?

No, Laritor bills you for the total number of events ingested. So there is no limit on how many events you can ingest. Each event is billed in 2KB increments. For example, If a database query is consuming 3KB of data, It is billed as 2 events.

How is event size calculated?

Events are billed in 2KB increments. If an event payload is 3KB, it counts as 2 events.

How is laritor different from other observability tools?

Laritor is built specifically for Laravel. It provides deep insights into Laravel’s internals (queues, jobs, commands, health checks, etc.), lightweight ingestion, AI-powered performance insights, and developer-friendly dashboards. All with zero instrumentation overhead.

What deployment environments does Laritor support?

Laritor supports almost all deployment environments, including traditional servers, VPS, and serverless platforms.

What hosting providers and deployment infrastructure Laritor supports?

Laritor supports all hosting providers and deployment infrastructures. You can run Laritor on shared hosting, dedicated cloud server, VPS, on-prem server, etc. There are also no restrictions on deployment environments you can use. You can run Laritor on Laravel Octane, Laravel Vapor, AWS Lambda or any other serverless infrastructure.

What Laravel versions does laritor support?

Laritor supports Laravel 8 and above. We also support Laravel Octane (FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, Swoole) and Laravel Vapor. Compatibility is updated regularly.

In which geographical region my data is stored?

Laritor gives you the option to select a geographical region to store your data at the time of signing up. Currently we support US East (New York) and Netherlands (Amsterdam) regions.

Does Laritor offer self hostable version?

No, currently Laritor only offers our cloud hosted SaaS solution and it is not possible to self host Laritor.

Can I monitor multiple Laravel apps under one account?

Yes. You can monitor multiple Laravel applications under a single Laritor account.

Can i Use Laritor in Production?

Yes. Laritor is designed for high-performance production workloads. Our client SDK supports full customization to control what data is ingested and when.

How does Laritor handle sensitive and PII data?

By default, Laritor's client package will redact sensitive information like passwords, credit cards, bank accounts, etc before sending the payload to our servers. Laritor also allows options to anonymize PII information like name, email and phone numbers.

How long does Laritor retain data?

Laritor retains all data ingested for a maximum of 30 days.

Can i use Laritor alongside other performance monitoring tools?

Yes. Laritor can run alongside other monitoring tools without conflicts.

Can I export my data from Laritor?

Yes. Laritor supports data export.

Do i need to have a long running agent on my servers to send data to Laritor?

No. Laritor does not rely on a separate agent to process events. Laritor automatically sends events data in the background as soon as a request is handled, command is executed or queued job is processed.

Can i set spending caps on my account?

Yes. You can set spending caps on Laritor and once your cap is reached, Laritor will stop ingesting events for the rest of the billing cycle.

How much performance impact does laritor will have on my application?

Laritor's client package is designed to use minimal performance footprint. It is estimated the performance impact of running Laritor's client package is less than 10ms.

Can i use Laritor to monitor non laravel applications?

No. Laritor is specially designed to work with Laravel applications only.

Which notification channels does laritor support?

Laritor supports native integrations with Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Email and any custom webhook. You can configure custom triggers like slow queries, failed health checks, or 5xx errors.

What type of data does laritor collect?

Laritor collects performance metrics, logs, requests, database queries, scheduled task traces, command execution, and exceptions. You can fully control what’s ingested using the Laritor client package.

Can i control what data is shared with Laritor?

Yes. You can redact, anonymize, or filter the data you share with Laritor.

Can i monitor custom health checks?

Yes. Laritor allows you to define and monitor your custom health checks.

Can i delete my data?

Yes. You can request full deletion of logs, traces, and backups at any time by emailing [email protected].

Does Laritor use my data to train AI models?

No. We do not use customer data to train AI models.

Can i setup billing alerts to avoid surprise bills?

Yes, you can setup billing alerts and Laritor will notify you as soon as your spend exceeds the alert threshold.

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