Laravel Horizon
Introduction
Horizon provides a beautiful dashboard and code-driven configuration for your Laravel powered Redis queues. Horizon allows you to easily monitor key metrics of your queue system such as job throughput, runtime, and job failures.
All of your worker configuration is stored in a single, simple configuration file, allowing your configuration to stay in source control where your entire team can collaborate.
Installation
You should ensure that your queue driver is set to redis
in your queue
configuration file.
You may use Composer to install Horizon into your Laravel project:
composer require laravel/horizon
After installing Horizon, publish its assets using the horizon:install
Artisan command:
php artisan horizon:install
You should also create the failed_jobs
table which Laravel will use to store any failed queue jobs:
php artisan queue:failed-table
php artisan migrate
Configuration
After publishing Horizon's assets, its primary configuration file will be located at config/horizon.php
. This configuration file allows you to configure your worker options and each configuration option includes a description of its purpose, so be sure to thoroughly explore this file.
Balance Options
Horizon allows you to choose from three balancing strategies: simple
, auto
, and false
. The simple
strategy, which is the configuration file's default, splits incoming jobs evenly between processes:
'balance' => 'simple',
The auto
strategy adjusts the number of worker processes per queue based on the current workload of the queue. For example, if your notifications
queue has 1,000 waiting jobs while your render
queue is empty, Horizon will allocate more workers to your notifications
queue until it is empty. When the balance
option is set to false
, the default Laravel behavior will be used, which processes queues in the order they are listed in your configuration.
Job Trimming
The horizon
configuration file allows you to configure how long recent and failed jobs should be persisted (in minutes). By default, recent jobs are kept for one hour while failed jobs are kept for a week:
'trim' => [
'recent' => 60,
'failed' => 10080,
],
Dashboard Authorization
Horizon exposes a dashboard at /horizon
. By default, you will only be able to access this dashboard in the local
environment. Within your app/Providers/HorizonServiceProvider.php
file, there is a gate
method. This authorization gate controls access to Horizon in non-local environments. You are free to modify this gate as needed to restrict access to your Horizon installation:
/**
* Register the Horizon gate.
*
* This gate determines who can access Horizon in non-local environments.
*
* @return void
*/
protected function gate()
{
Gate::define('viewHorizon', function ($user) {
return in_array($user->email, [
'taylor@laravel.com',
]);
});
}
Running Horizon
Once you have configured your workers in the config/horizon.php
configuration file, you may start Horizon using the horizon
Artisan command. This single command will start all of your configured workers:
php artisan horizon
You may pause the Horizon process and instruct it to continue processing jobs using the horizon:pause
and horizon:continue
Artisan commands:
php artisan horizon:pause
php artisan horizon:continue
You may gracefully terminate the master Horizon process on your machine using the horizon:terminate
Artisan command. Any jobs that Horizon is currently processing will be completed and then Horizon will exit:
php artisan horizon:terminate
Deploying Horizon
If you are deploying Horizon to a live server, you should configure a process monitor to monitor the php artisan horizon
command and restart it if it quits unexpectedly. When deploying fresh code to your server, you will need to instruct the master Horizon process to terminate so it can be restarted by your process monitor and receive your code changes.
Supervisor Configuration
If you are using the Supervisor process monitor to manage your horizon
process, the following configuration file should suffice:
[program:horizon]
process_name=%(program_name)s
command=php /home/forge/app.com/artisan horizon
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=forge
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/home/forge/app.com/horizon.log
If you are uncomfortable managing your own servers, consider using Laravel Forge. Forge provisions PHP 7+ servers with everything you need to run modern, robust Laravel applications with Horizon.
Tags
Horizon allows you to assign “tags” to jobs, including mailables, event broadcasts, notifications, and queued event listeners. In fact, Horizon will intelligently and automatically tag most jobs depending on the Eloquent models that are attached to the job. For example, take a look at the following job:
<?php
namespace App\Jobs;
use App\Video;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
class RenderVideo implements ShouldQueue
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* The video instance.
*
* @var \App\Video
*/
public $video;
/**
* Create a new job instance.
*
* @param \App\Video $video
* @return void
*/
public function __construct(Video $video)
{
$this->video = $video;
}
/**
* Execute the job.
*
* @return void
*/
public function handle()
{
//
}
}
If this job is queued with an App\Video
instance that has an id
of 1
, it will automatically receive the tag App\Video:1
. This is because Horizon will examine the job's properties for any Eloquent models. If Eloquent models are found, Horizon will intelligently tag the job using the model's class name and primary key:
$video = App\Video::find(1);
App\Jobs\RenderVideo::dispatch($video);
Manually Tagging
If you would like to manually define the tags for one of your queueable objects, you may define a tags
method on the class:
class RenderVideo implements ShouldQueue
{
/**
* Get the tags that should be assigned to the job.
*
* @return array
*/
public function tags()
{
return ['render', 'video:'.$this->video->id];
}
}
Notifications
Before using notifications, you should add the guzzlehttp/guzzle
Composer package to your project. When configuring Horizon to send SMS notifications, you should also review the prerequisites for the Nexmo notification driver.
If you would like to be notified when one of your queues has a long wait time, you may use the Horizon::routeMailNotificationsTo
, Horizon::routeSlackNotificationsTo
, and Horizon::routeSmsNotificationsTo
methods. You may call these methods from your application's HorizonServiceProvider
:
Horizon::routeMailNotificationsTo('example@example.com');
Horizon::routeSlackNotificationsTo('slack-webhook-url', '#channel');
Horizon::routeSmsNotificationsTo('15556667777');
Configuring Notification Wait Time Thresholds
You may configure how many seconds are considered a "long wait" within your config/horizon.php
configuration file. The waits
configuration option within this file allows you to control the long wait threshold for each connection / queue combination:
'waits' => [
'redis:default' => 60,
],