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A simple Laravel package that provides a health check API endpoint for monitoring your application's status.

Features

• Simple /health endpoint that returns JSON status
• Database connectivity check
• Cache connectivity check
• Returns HTTP 200 for healthy, 503 for unhealthy
• Configurable endpoint path and checks
• Auto-discovery for Laravel

Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require bhhaskin/laravel-status

The package will automatically register itself via Laravel's package auto-discovery.

Usage

Once installed, the package automatically registers a /health endpoint that returns:

Healthy Response (200):

{
  "status": "ok"
}

Unhealthy Response (503):

{
  "status": "error"
}

Simply make a GET request to /health to check your application's status.

Configuration

Publish the configuration file (optional):

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-status-config

This creates config/status.php with the following options:

return [
    // Enable or disable the status check endpoint
    'enabled' => env('STATUS_CHECK_ENABLED', true),

    // The path for the status check endpoint
    'path' => env('STATUS_CHECK_PATH', 'health'),

    // Middleware to apply to the status check endpoint
    'middleware' => [],

    // Configure which health checks to run
    'checks' => [
        'database' => env('STATUS_CHECK_DATABASE', true),
        'cache' => env('STATUS_CHECK_CACHE', true),
    ],
];

Environment Variables

You can configure the package using environment variables:

STATUS_CHECK_ENABLED=true
STATUS_CHECK_PATH=health
STATUS_CHECK_DATABASE=true
STATUS_CHECK_CACHE=true

Testing

Run the test suite:

composer test

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 10.x or 11.x

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.