Freek Van der Herten
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Freek Van der Herten
@freek.bsky.social
PHP developer at Spatie, built Mailcoach, ‪myray.app‬, ohdear.app and flareapp.io, blogging at ‪freek.dev‬, organising fullstackeurope.com
Expect more updates to Flare, performance monitoring and error tracking over the next few months. This launch is just the beginning.

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flareapp.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Curious how we got here? Alex wrote a deep dive on the design decisions, process, and pitfalls from building performance monitoring, a journey that started over a year ago.

Read the story here: flareapp.io/blog/lessons...
Lessons from the deep end - Insights
20 months ago, we started building Performance Monitoring as Flare’s next big feature, never expecting Laravel’s rapid commercial growth to put us in direct competition with their own tools. This is o...
flareapp.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Here’s what you get:

✔ Monitor routes, controllers, jobs, database queries, and external APIs
✔ Real-time data and historical trends (3h, 6h, 24h)
✔ See slow queries and API calls in a trace timeline

Full breakdown of the feature in our blog post: flareapp.io/blog/introdu...
Introducing Flare’s next big feature: performance monitoring - Insights
Flare's new Performance Monitoring feature is now live, giving you complete visibility into your Laravel app's HTTP routes, queued jobs, Artisan commands, and database queries.
flareapp.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Nice, those validation rules could also have a nice home here: github.com/spatie/larav...
GitHub - spatie/laravel-validation-rules: A set of useful Laravel validation rules
A set of useful Laravel validation rules. Contribute to spatie/laravel-validation-rules development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM