SigNoz Laravel Sample App

📘 Official Laravel Instrumentation Guide: https://signoz.io/docs/instrumentation/opentelemetry-laravel/

This repository demonstrates how to run a Laravel application already configured with OpenTelemetry Automatic Instrumentation and send traces to SigNoz Cloud.

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Step 1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/signoz/openTelemetry-laravel-example
cd openTelemetry-laravel-example

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Step 2. Install dependencies

composer install

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Step 3. Copy environment variables

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate              

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Step 4. Run the app with OpenTelemetry instrumentation

env OTEL_PHP_AUTOLOAD_ENABLED=true \
    OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=<service_name> \
    OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=otlp \
    OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf \
    OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=ingest.<region>.signoz.cloud:443 \
    OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS=signoz-ingestion-key=<your-ingestion-key> \
    OTEL_PROPAGATORS=baggage,tracecontext \
    php -S localhost:8080 -t public public/index.php

Replace:

• <service_name> → name of your service
• <region> → your SigNoz Cloud region (example: us, in)
• <your-ingestion-key> → your SigNoz ingestion key