Registering your first check

This package offers various checks to monitor different aspects of your application.

You can register the checks you want to run, by passing an array with checks to Spatie\Health\Facades\Health::check().

Here's an example where we're going to register the UsedDiskSpace and DatabaseCheck. Typically, you would put this in a service provider of your own.

// typically, in a service provider

use Spatie\Health\Facades\Health;
use Spatie\Health\Checks\Checks\UsedDiskSpaceCheck;
use Spatie\Health\Checks\Checks\DatabaseCheck;

Health::checks([
    UsedDiskSpaceCheck::new(),
    DatabaseCheck::new(),
]);

All registered checks will run when the RunHealthChecksCommand executes. If you followed the installation instructions, you have already scheduled that command to execute every minute.

If you haven't scheduled that command, you could run the checks and view the results via HTTP or JSON.

When a check results in a warning or a failure, a notification will be sent. You can learn more about notifications in the section on configuring notifications.

Though it's not required, you can store the results of the checks. This way, you can keep a history of the results in your own database.

##Frequency

You can configure how often the checks should run. By default, the checks will run every minute. You can change this by calling a method that defines how often it should run, or passing a cron expression. Please refer to the Laravel documentation to see which options are available.

Health::checks([
    UsedDiskSpaceCheck::new()->daily(),
    DatabaseCheck::new(),
]);

Additionally, you might also choose the timezone in which the checks should run. By default, the timezone is set to UTC. You can change this by calling the timezone method.

Health::checks([
    UsedDiskSpaceCheck::new()->dailyAt('02:00')->timezone('America/Los_Angeles'),
    DatabaseCheck::new()->dailyAt('02:00'),
]);

The UsedDiskSpaceCheck check will run every day at 2AM Los Angeles time, whereas DatabaseCheck will run every day at 2AM UTC.