Laritor
Yes
Laritor vs Laravel Pulse
A Laravel Pulse alternative
for your whole Laravel app.
Laritor tracks exceptions, detects issues, and monitors Laravel performance. Follow requests, queues, queries, and user sessions in one place. Build your own dashboards, inspect server resources, and debug with in-app AI or your coding agent through MCP.
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Laravel native
Designed primarily for Laravel. All tools compared here support Laravel.
Laravel Pulse
Yes
Why choose Laritor over Pulse?
Laravel monitoring
built around your everyday work.
Pulse gives you an in-app performance and usage dashboard. Laritor combines performance monitoring with detailed execution timelines, exception tracking, and alerts in a hosted workspace. Use it to investigate why a request failed or slowed down, follow a user’s journey, and debug with AI.
More visibility. More control.
- Unlimited custom dashboards with 85+ widgets.
- Exception tracker issue tracker, or full observability recording.
- Feature flag insights and custom health checks.
- Session journeys across recorded Laravel requests.
- Request and API payload context with privacy controls.
- Queue wait time investigation and a dedicated Issues workspace.
- Custom event views and daily or weekly PDF reports.
- Your choice of provider for in-app AI, plus exception context through MCP.
Specific team requirements.
- You want a free, open-source Laravel performance dashboard.
- You want monitoring data and the dashboard on your own infrastructure.
- You want to inspect and extend the monitoring package’s source code.
- You want to build your own PHP, Blade, and Livewire dashboard cards.
The full feature comparison
Laritor vs Laravel Pulse.
See what you get.
Compare 37 capabilities. See where Laritor gives you more, where Pulse has an advantage, and what both tools offer.
“Not listed” means a dedicated feature was not found in the public documentation reviewed. Custom instrumentation or an integration may offer another way to meet that need. Pulse already provides server metrics, queue throughput, slow operation metrics, and customizable dashboards. This comparison distinguishes those metrics from Laritor’s detailed execution context and hosted monitoring workflows.
Where Laritor shines
Recorded execution timelines, alerts, exception details, session journeys, AI, and scheduled PDF reports.
| Capability | Laritor | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted monitoring across applications | One monitoring workspace Monitor multiple Laravel applications and environments from one hosted workspace. | An in-app dashboard backed by your configured storage. A hosted multi-application service is not provided. |
| Managed monitoring storage | Managed event history Laritor stores recorded events, with 30-day retention on the paid plan. | Operate the monitoring database and retention on your infrastructure. |
| Full recorded execution timelines | See what led to a problem Follow queries, logs, API calls, and other related events inside each retained request or job. | Core cards show aggregate metrics. A correlated, detailed execution timeline is not provided by the core recorders. |
| Exception stack traces and occurrence details | Debug the occurrence Grouped exceptions with full stack traces, source context, and recorded occurrence events. | Exception class, optional file and line, frequency, and recency. The recorder does not store the full stack trace or exception message. |
| Request headers, payloads, and responses | Inspect request details Optional capture on retained requests, with collection and privacy controls. | Slow request metrics identify the method, route, action, and duration; headers and bodies are not captured by this recorder. |
| Outbound API payload and response context | Find why API calls fail Optional outgoing headers, payloads, status codes, and response content. | Slow outgoing request metrics record method, URL, and duration; response content and payloads are not stored. |
| Queries inside a recorded execution | Find the query behind the slowdown Inspect recorded queries, bindings, repeated calls, and time spent within the request or job. | Slow SQL groups with counts, maximum duration, and optional location. Query bindings and a request query timeline are not recorded. |
| Dedicated operational issue tracking | Start with the problems Investigate exceptions, failed jobs, slow requests, and other detected issues in an Issues workspace. | Cards summarize exception and queue failure counts and slow operations. A comparable issue investigation workspace is not listed. |
| Problem alerts and integrations | Get notified where you need to Receive problem alerts through configured channels and create GitHub or Linear issues. | Built-in problem notification channels and issue tracker integrations are not listed in core. |
| Built-in in-app AI and MCP server | Debug with your coding agent In-app recommendations, your choice of AI provider, and hosted read-only exception context through MCP. | Built-in AI recommendations and an exception-context MCP server are not listed in core. Custom integrations can be developed. |
| Automatic Pennant performance insights | Understand feature rollouts Feature flag evaluations, activation rates, execution durations, and related errors. | Custom recorders and cards can add flag metrics. Automatic Pennant collection and a dedicated flag performance card are not listed in core. |
| Queue wait time investigation | Find time lost before execution Compare dispatch delay, worker wait, and execution duration for recorded jobs. | Core queue cards track throughput and slow jobs. The queue recorder does not calculate per-job wait duration. |
| Laravel session journeys | Follow a user’s journey Inspect recorded requests across a session and add custom events to explain a customer’s path. | Authenticated user activity is counted. A session journey across individual requests is not listed. |
| Custom health checks | Check your dependencies Dependency checks with result history and failure alerts inside Laravel. | Custom cards can display additional data. A built-in dependency health check resource is not listed. |
| Database schema explorer | Inspect the schema behind a query Browse tables, columns, indexes, and relationships beside recorded queries. | The slow query view summarizes SQL. A schema explorer is not part of that view. |
| Custom daily and weekly PDF reports | Share application snapshots Choose performance metrics and receive scheduled PDF snapshots by email. | A live application dashboard. Built-in scheduled PDF performance reports are not listed. |
| Bot and suspicious request views | Understand automated traffic Dedicated traffic views with detection settings and recording filters. | Slow request and user usage metrics. Dedicated bot and suspicious traffic views are not listed in core. |
| Mail, notification, and log inspection | See the related activity Dedicated event resources with details related to retained executions. | Core recorders do not include dedicated mail, notification, or application log inspection. |
| Command and scheduled task investigation | Investigate background work Inspect recorded execution details, failures, output, and related activity. | Dedicated command and scheduled task execution recorders are not included in the default recorder list. |
| No-code dashboard builder | 85+ widgets Arrange unlimited dashboards from 85+ ready-to-use Laravel widgets. | Customize dashboard layout and add cards through Blade and Livewire code. A comparable no-code widget builder is not listed. |
| Shared team monitoring workspace | Bring your team together Invite teammates and manage access to applications across organizations. | Authorize access through your application’s viewPulse gate. Hosted team and application administration is not provided. |
| Problem-based whole-execution recording | Record what you care about Choose Exception tracker issue tracker, or full observability. Retain related recorded events for matching executions. | Enable recorders and filter or sample metric entries. Equivalent exception-triggered capture of an execution’s detailed event timeline is not provided. |
Where Pulse shines
Free software, self-hosted data, open-source implementation, and custom PHP and Livewire cards.
| Capability | Laritor | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Free software without usage fees | Paid monitoring starts at $20/month after the trial, with event-based usage. | Free MIT-licensed software with no subscription or per-entry license fee. Running costs depend on your setup. |
| Self-hosted monitoring data | Selected recorded events are sent to Laritor, with client-side collection controls. | Keep the monitoring database and dashboard on infrastructure you control. |
| Open-source implementation | Hosted product with a Laravel Composer client and configuration controls. | Inspect, modify, and extend the monitoring package under its MIT license. |
| Custom PHP and Livewire cards | Custom events and 85+ configurable dashboard widgets. | Build application-specific dashboard cards in PHP, Blade, and Livewire, including data from other sources. |
Where there’s a tie
Both monitor slow operations, queue throughput, server resources, cache usage, and user activity, with dashboard and recording customization.
| Capability | Laritor | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Slow request monitoring | Request duration metrics and retained request investigations. | Slow endpoint counts and maximum duration with configurable thresholds. |
| Slow queued job monitoring | Recorded job durations and performance metrics. | Slow job counts and maximum duration by job class. |
| Slow database query monitoring | Query timing and slow query insights across recorded activity. | Slow SQL counts and maximum duration, grouped by SQL and optional location. |
| Slow outgoing HTTP monitoring | External API timing and performance views. | Slow Laravel HTTP client calls grouped by method and URL. |
| Queue throughput and failures | Queue throughput, status, and failure metrics. | Queued, processing, processed, released, and failed job throughput. |
| Server CPU, memory, and disk metrics | Optional scheduled host collection with dedicated resource charts. | Server resources through the Servers card and pulse:check daemon on each monitored server. |
| Cache hit and miss insights | Cache event details and hit/miss metrics for recorded activity. | Global and per-key hit/miss statistics, with configurable key grouping. |
| Authenticated user usage | User activity, additional attributes, and linked recorded executions. | User request, job, and slow request counts, with customizable user details. |
| Recording filters and sampling | Client-side event settings, custom filters, and sampling controls. | Recorder switches, ignore patterns, per-recorder sample rates, and entry filters. |
| Custom application metrics | Named custom events, metadata, timelines, and dashboard views. | Custom recorders and the recording API can collect and aggregate your own metrics. |
| Customizable Laravel dashboards | Create dashboards with the included widget library. | Publish and edit the Blade dashboard; rearrange cards or add custom Livewire cards. |
Major difference
See the events behind the numbers. Fix the problem faster.
Laritor gives you more than an application health summary. Open an individual recorded request, job, or exception and inspect the activity that explains why it failed or became slow.
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Go from a metric to its recorded execution
Inspect related queries, API calls, cache events, and logs in Laritor. Pulse’s aggregate cards show patterns and totals rather than a complete related-event timeline for each occurrence.
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Get an exception investigation workflow
Laritor combines grouped occurrences, stack traces, alerts, in-app AI, and exception MCP. Pulse’s exception summary does not provide the same full investigation workspace.
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Leave monitoring storage to Laritor
Laritor operates ingestion, retention, and telemetry storage. Pulse stores data in a database you provide and requires your team to manage collection, sampling, and trimming; optional Redis ingestion adds a worker process.
Why choose Laritor over Pulse?
See more of your Laravel app.
Fix problems with better context.
Investigate the events behind a slow request or exception, follow user journeys, review feature flags, and keep your team informed.
One allowance for the events you record
Compare your usage All Laritor features. $20/month.
20M billable events, unlimited apps and users, and 30-day retention. Choose exceptions, detected issues, or all activity without a separate error or log quota.
Pulse is free software. Compare Laritor’s subscription with the optional infrastructure and maintenance budget you enter for Pulse; no Pulse usage fee is assumed.
Cost calculator
Compare subscription and running costs.
Pulse is free software. Estimate Laritor’s subscription from your billable events, then optionally enter your own Pulse running-cost budget.
Laritor subscription / month$20.00USD · Unlimited apps and users · 30-day retention
20,000,000 billable events
Pulse running-cost budget / month$0.00Free MIT-licensed software · Your entered budget
License $0.00 + infrastructure $0.00 + maintenance $0.00
Pulse has no subscription fee. Its total uses only the costs you enter; Laritor’s result is its subscription price. Neither figure is a complete estimate of operating or setup costs.
Monthly USD amounts before tax. Pulse’s license remains $0 regardless of entry count. Its infrastructure and maintenance inputs start at $0 and are optional estimates from your own setup, not published Pulse charges. Laritor adds $0.20 per started 100K billable events above 20M; estimates above $500/month require a quote. Free trial usage, setup work, and costs you have not entered are excluded. The event input changes Laritor’s subscription only; Pulse aggregates metrics while Laritor records execution events, so collection counts and storage requirements differ.
Hosted monitoring for your team
Bring applications, event history, and investigations into one workspace.
Hosted monitoring
Monitor your apps from one workspace.
Laritor stores recorded events and gives your team one place to investigate multiple applications and environments. The paid plan includes 30-day retention.
Pulse runs its dashboard inside Laravel and stores monitoring data in your configured database. Choose Laritor when you want a managed monitoring workspace rather than operating that storage yourself.
Execution timelines
Go from a slow endpoint to the events behind it.
Open a retained request or job and follow its queries, logs, outbound calls, exceptions, and other recorded activity. See which part of that execution needs attention.
Pulse’s slow request card identifies endpoints by their count and slowest duration. Laritor adds detailed execution context so you can investigate an occurrence after finding a performance problem.
Find and fix production problems
Receive an alert and inspect the recorded context behind an exception or issue.
Alerts and integrations
Get notified where you need to.
Receive exception and issue alerts through your configured channels. Open the recorded occurrence to investigate, then connect your team’s workflow through GitHub or Linear.
Pulse’s core services provide a monitoring dashboard. Built-in problem alert delivery is not listed, so notification workflows require additional tooling or your own integration.
Exception investigation
See the stack trace and the events that led to it.
Inspect the file and line, full stack trace, and related recorded events for an exception occurrence. Follow the execution journey to identify the cause and work on a fix.
Pulse groups exception counts by class and optional source location. Its core recorder does not save the full stack trace or message; Laritor provides those occurrence details alongside the timeline.
Queue wait times
See why a queued job took so long.
Compare dispatch delay, worker wait, execution duration, and throughput. Find whether the workflow needs a code change or more available workers.
Pulse already shows queue throughput and slow job metrics. Laritor adds per-job wait time investigation and related recorded execution events.
Outbound API calls
Find why your API calls are failing.
Inspect optional captured headers, payloads, status codes, and response content. Follow how an external API response affected a retained request or job.
Pulse records slow outgoing HTTP method, URL, and duration metrics. Laritor also gives you the captured API details needed to investigate failures.
Debug with your AI agent
Give your agent the context
behind an exception.
Laritor MCP lets your agent retrieve exception details and the recorded execution timeline. It can inspect those events alongside your code to investigate the cause and work on a fix. In-app AI recommendations are available too.
Laritor has built-in hosted MCP and in-app recommendations. Pulse core does not list equivalent built-in exception-context MCP or AI recommendations; custom extensions require their own setup. Choose your in-app AI provider ↗
Read the Laritor MCP guide
Understand performance and user journeys
Build the views you need and connect application metrics to recorded activity.
Customizable dashboards
Build dashboards tailored to your team.
Choose from 85+ widgets for performance, exceptions, queues, users, and server resources. Arrange unlimited dashboards without building each card yourself.
Pulse also supports dashboard customization. You publish and edit its Blade view and can build Livewire cards. Laritor’s advantage is the ready-to-use widget library and no-code dashboard builder.
Laravel session journeys
Follow the requests behind a customer’s problem.
Inspect recorded requests across a session and add custom events for checkout, subscription changes, or other business milestones. Follow the customer’s path between requests.
Pulse counts authenticated user activity. Laritor adds a dedicated journey through recorded requests in the same session, with the related execution context.
Feature flag insights
Understand how your feature flags affect your application.
Laritor automatically records Laravel Pennant evaluations. Inspect activation rates, durations, and related errors to understand usage and the effect of a rollout.
Pulse can be extended with your own metrics and cards. Automatic Pennant collection and a dedicated feature performance view are not listed in its default recorders.
Database schema explorer
Inspect the schema behind a query problem.
Browse tables, columns, indexes, and relationships beside recorded queries. Use the schema with AI assistance to investigate a database operation in context.
Pulse shows slow SQL metrics and optional source locations. Laritor adds recorded query bindings, execution context, and a schema explorer to the investigation.
Bot and suspicious traffic
Understand the traffic using your server resources.
Compare bot and suspicious requests by route, status, and timing. Open retained requests and adjust detection and recording filters for your app.
Pulse shows slow endpoint metrics and user usage counts. Dedicated bot analytics are not listed in its core slow request view.
Performance in context
See slow requests, errors,
and bot traffic together.
Review request volume, status codes, duration percentiles, and where time is spent. Open a retained request to inspect its queries, logs, API calls, and other recorded events. Explore request monitoring
Updates without opening a dashboard
Keep your team informed with a regular application snapshot.
Scheduled PDF reports
Receive the metrics you care about each day or week.
Choose performance metrics and a delivery schedule. Receive PDF snapshots by email and share them with teammates who need an application update.
Pulse provides a live dashboard. Scheduled PDF performance reports are not listed among its core dashboard features.
Evaluate Laritor in your app
Try it before you switch.
Use a representative app or environment to compare the details you receive, recording volume, and debugging workflow.
Install and configure the client
Create a Laritor account, install the Composer package, add your ingest endpoint and key, and run the sync command.
Complete installation stepscomposer require binarybuilds/laritor-clientChoose what to record
Start with exception tracker, issue tracker, or full observability. Register the generated filter, then review the data and privacy settings for your app.
Configure recording filtersCompare a real investigation
Inspect a known exception or slow execution, test alert delivery, and compare measured overhead and billable event usage. If you run both tools, include their combined collection work in your evaluation.
Explore exception investigationSet up your team’s workflow
Create your dashboards, choose alert channels, schedule reports, and connect AI. Keep access to your existing Pulse history while Laritor builds a new record of your application’s activity. There is no documented automatic history import.
Explore Laritor guides
Questions before switching
Laravel Pulse alternative FAQs.
What is Laritor, and why use it as a Laravel Pulse alternative?
Laritor tracks exceptions, detects issues, and monitors Laravel performance in a hosted workspace. It combines performance metrics with recorded execution timelines, alerts, session journeys, custom dashboards, reports, in-app AI, and MCP. Use it when you want to investigate the activity behind a problem as well as monitor application metrics.
What is the difference between Laravel Pulse and Laritor?
Pulse is a free, open-source application performance and usage dashboard that you run inside Laravel. Laritor is a hosted monitoring service that also records detailed execution context. Both show performance metrics; Laritor adds occurrence-level investigations, team monitoring, alerts, session journeys, and AI debugging.
Can I use Laravel Pulse in production?
Yes. Configure dashboard authorization, storage, recorder settings, and sampling for your production app. Server metrics require pulse:check on each monitored server. Redis ingestion is optional and uses pulse:work. Measure collection overhead and database growth for your own workload.
Does Laravel Pulse track exceptions and full stack traces?
Pulse records reportable exception counts and recency grouped by class and optional source location. Its core exception recorder does not store the full stack trace or message. Laritor includes full stack traces and related recorded events for exception occurrences, so you can investigate the execution that failed.
Does Pulse already monitor servers and queue performance?
Yes. Pulse includes CPU, memory, and storage metrics through its Servers card and pulse:check daemon, plus queue throughput and slow job cards. Laritor also monitors these areas and adds per-job wait time investigation and recorded execution context. Server and queue monitoring are not exclusive to Laritor.
Can I customize the Laravel Pulse dashboard?
Yes. Publish its Blade dashboard view to change the layout, rearrange cards, or add your own Livewire cards. Pulse also supports custom recording and aggregation. Laritor offers unlimited dashboards with a no-code builder and 85+ included widgets, plus custom events linked to recorded execution timelines.
Can Laritor record only exceptions or detected issues?
Yes. Exceptions-only mode retains related recorded events when an exception occurs. issue tracker mode retains activity for detected problems such as failed jobs or slow requests. Full observability retains all configured activity. Pulse filters and samples metric entries; these are different from capturing a detailed event timeline only when an execution has a problem.
Is Laravel Pulse free, and how does its cost compare with Laritor?
Pulse is MIT-licensed software with no subscription or per-entry license fee. Incremental database, storage, process, and maintenance costs depend on your setup. Laritor starts at $20/month with 20M billable events. The calculator compares that subscription with an optional Pulse running-cost budget that you enter yourself.
Does the calculator assume Pulse has a paid plan?
No. Pulse’s software license stays $0. Infrastructure and maintenance inputs start at $0 and use only your own estimates. The event input calculates Laritor billable usage only and does not change Pulse’s budget. Pulse metric entries and Laritor detailed events are different records, so the calculator does not invent a cost per Pulse entry.
What happens when Laritor’s estimated price exceeds $500?
The calculator shows “Ask for a quote” when Laritor’s estimated monthly subscription exceeds $500. Exactly $500 stays numeric. Pulse’s entered running-cost budget remains separate from its free software license. Estimates exclude tax, setup work, and other costs you have not entered.
Can I debug with AI and MCP using Laritor?
Yes. Laritor provides hosted read-only exception context through MCP, in-app recommendations, and your choice of AI provider. Your coding agent can investigate recorded events alongside your application code. Pulse core does not list equivalent built-in AI recommendations or an exception-context MCP server; custom integrations and extensions are separate.
How can I protect sensitive data and PII?
Laritor supports client-side collection controls and redaction before ingestion. Pulse’s core metrics do not collect the same detailed bodies and timelines, but keys, URLs, user identifiers, and custom recorder data still need review. Configure filters, user resolution, dashboard access, and data collection to suit your application.
Can I run Laravel Pulse and Laritor in parallel?
Yes. You can keep Pulse’s in-app performance dashboard while evaluating Laritor’s hosted monitoring and detailed execution context in the same application. Review both recording configurations and measure their combined overhead with representative requests and jobs.
Will my existing Pulse data transfer to Laritor?
Laritor records new activity after installation and configuration. There is no documented automatic import of Pulse metric history. Keep your existing Pulse dashboard available while Laritor builds a new record of your application’s activity.
About this comparison
Sources and comparison notes.
Published by Laritor, independently of Pulse. Pulse’s official Laravel documentation, current 1.x recorders, dashboard cards, metric storage, filtering, and MIT license were reviewed on . The table compares core product features. Pulse supports custom recorders and cards; the comparison acknowledges these separately from built-in features.
“Not listed” is a documentation finding, not a claim that a capability is impossible to implement. Dedicated product views are compared separately from custom events and context. Prices use monthly USD billing before tax. Pulse has no subscription or per-entry license fee. The calculator uses a billable event count to estimate Laritor’s subscription and optional user-entered infrastructure and maintenance budgets for Pulse. Those budgets start at zero and are not published software charges. The comparison does not assume a storage cost per entry or claim either figure is a full total cost of ownership. Tax, setup work, and unentered costs are excluded.
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