PHP Agent

Our PHP agent supports PHP versions 7.2 to 8.3! Scout’s PHP agent supports many popular libraries to instrument middleware, request times, SQL queries, and more.

The base package is called scoutapp/scout-apm-php, Laravel instrumentation is in the scoutapp/scout-apm-laravel, and Symfony instrumentation in scoutapp/scout-apm-symfony-bundle. See our install instructions for more details:

• Laravel
• Symfony

Source code and issues can be found on our scout-apm-php GitHub repository.

Requirements

scout-apm-php requires:

• PHP
• A POSIX operating system, such as Linux or macOS.

Instrumented Libraries

Scout provides automatic instrumentation for:

• Laravel 5.5+
• Lumen 5.5+
• Symfony 4.0+
• PDO
• libcurl
• Predis
• PhpRedis
• ElasticSearch
• MongoDB
• Memcached

Some configuration required

The libraries below require a small number of configuration updates. Click on the respective library for instructions.

• Laravel
  • Middleware
  • Controllers
  • SQL queries
  • Job queues
  • Blade rendering
• Symfony
  • Controllers
  • SQL queries (Doctrine)
  • Twig rendering

Additionally, Scout can also instrument request queuing time.

You can instrument your own code or other libraries via custom instrumentation. You can suggest additional libraries you’d like Scout to instrument on GitHub.

Updating to the Newest Version

composer update scout-apm-laravel

The package changelog is available here.