Laravel Failed Jobs

Introduction:

If you're running an application with a queue driver other than Redis or dispatch a job to a particular connection other than Redis, which is exclusively supported by Laravel Horizon, you might be missing out on the elegant features that Horizon offers. Laravel Horizon is known for its elegance and a wide range of implemented features. One of its standout features is its ability to present detailed information about failed job payloads and automatically load new failed jobs.

In your specific application, if you've been longing for a similar Horizon-like UI to monitor failed jobs, the Laravel-Failed-Jobs package has got you covered. This package streamlines the visualization of failed jobs, eliminating the need to connect to a database client and search through failed_jobs records to identify the cause of a job's failure.

Key Benefits:

• Seamless Integration: You can seamlessly integrate the Laravel-Failed-Jobs package into your project, even if you are already using Laravel Horizon. There's no conflict between the two.
• While Horizon primarily reads and writes data to Redis, Laravel-Failed-Jobs retrieves data from the failed_jobs table.
• With Laravel-Failed-Jobs, you can enjoy the convenience of monitoring failed jobs in your application, regardless of your queue driver. This package brings the elegance of Laravel Horizon's failed jobs UI to your specific setup.
• Remote Connection Mode: This package offers two operational modes, each with its distinct setup. The Basic mode setup enabling dashboard authentication mirror that of Laravel Horizon. Remote mode is particularly beneficial for applications functioning solely as API service providers, where there is no user model or admin user. In such scenarios, the Gate definition within FailedJobsServiceProvider, which typically restricts access the Laravel-Failed-Jobs dashboard in non-local environments, is not applicable. Remote mode enables access to the main application from a separate Laravel application, hosted on a distinct URL address, in both local and production environments.

As you correctly understood, it's important to note that the Laravel-Failed-Jobs package focuses solely on enhancing the visualization of failed jobs and does not offer managing of failed jobs or the comprehensive set of robust features found in Laravel Horizon.

I - Installation (basic mode):

If you have already installed Laravel Horizon, you can still install Laravel-Failed-Jobs without any conflict. Also it follows the same installation process as Laravel Horizon.

You may install Laravel-Failed-Jobs package into your project using the Composer package manager:

composer require hpwebdeveloper/laravel-failed-jobs

After installing Laravel-Failed-Jobs, publish the assets using the failedjobs:install Artisan command.

php artisan failedjobs:install

This command will automatically publish the failedjobs config file, FailedJobsServiceProvider service provider and also the resource view files into the public/vendor/failedjobs directory.

To upgrade the package, you need to use the following command after upgrading via composer:

php artisan failedjobs:publish

You may need to modify the FailedJobsServiceProvider to determine who can access the dashboard in production environment.

Dashboard

The Laravel-Failed-Jobs dashboard is accessible through the /failedjobs route by default. However, if you wish to define a new path, you can do so by setting the FAILEDJOBS_PATH variable in the .env file.

Dashboard Authorization

Theapp/Providers/FailedJobsServiceProvider.php class applies Laravel Gate to determine who can access FailedJobs in non-local environments. You need to follow the same document of Horizon to secure the dashboard in production environment.

II - Installation (remote mode):

Remote mode enables access to the main application from a separate Laravel application, hosted on a distinct URL address, in both local and production environments.

Prepare package in both applications

To use this package in remote mode, you need to install the package in both main and remote applications.

You may install the Laravel-Failed-Jobs package into your project using the composer package manager:

Note: currently the remote feature is under feature/remote-connect branch.

composer require hpwebdeveloper/laravel-failed-jobs:dev-feature/remote-connect

Then install the assets using the failedjobs:install Artisan command.

php artisan failedjobs:install

Prepare the environments variables

In this mode you need to propertly configure the following environment variables in both applications:

    'axios_base_url' => env('AXIOS_BASE_URL', ''),
    'server_access_token' => env('FAILEDJOBS_SERVER_ACCESS_TOKEN'),
    'dashboard_access_token' => env('FAILEDJOBS_DASHBOARD_ACCESS_TOKEN'),

axios_base_url is the base URL of the main application which you have to set in the local/remote application. Setting this variable is mandatory in remote mode.

server_access_token is the access token to access the main application from the remote application. It is mandatory to set this variable in the main application .env file. It is mandatory to set dashboard_access_token variable in the remote application equal to the value of the server_access_token in the main application.

Secure the endpoint

As in the failedjobs config file defined, the dashboard is accessible through the /failedjobs route by default. But it is recommended to change it when using the package in the remote mode.

It is simply possible by setting the FAILEDJOBS_PATH variable in the .env file of both applications with a hash value and then define that value as a path in the cors config file of the main application.

Modifying the cors config file in the main application is required because in the remote mode we are dealing with two different applications served in two different URLs. Laravel automatically respond to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) OPTIONS HTTP requests with values that you configure in the cors config file. Read more about CORS.

Hence in summary

• Set the FAILEDJOBS_PATH variable in the .env file of the main application with a hash value like failedjobs_4a5b6c7d
• Set the FAILEDJOBS_PATH variable in the .env file of the remote application with a hash value like failedjobs_4a5b6c7d
• Open the cors.php config file of the main application and modify the following code accordingly:

// before
        'paths' => ['api/*', 'sanctum/csrf-cookie'],
// after
        'paths' => ['failedjobs_4a5b6c7d/*', 'api/*', 'sanctum/csrf-cookie'],

Then access the dashboard using the following URL: http://your-local-application.test/failedjobs_4a5b6c7d.

As your main application is configured like APP_ENV=production the Failed-Jobs dashboard is not accessible in the production environment. While you can access the dashboard in the local environment through this URL: http://your-local-application.test/failedjobs_4a5b6c7d.

Of course you can access the dashboard in the main application if you set the axios_base_url variable in the main application .env file as well.

Licensing

This repository uses two licenses:

• The original codebase is distributed under the MIT License (MIT) (Copyright (c) Taylor Otwell), which you can find in the LICENSE file.

• Any modifications made to the original codebase are subject to our own license, which you can find in the LICENSE file.