--- title: Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler description: Laravel Time Machine is a new open-source performance profiler for Laravel applications that records every stage of the HTTP request lifecycle — from bootstrap... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-time-machine-a-request-lifecycle-profiler-ubehymlj2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler | daily.dev og:description: Laravel Time Machine is a new open-source performance profiler for Laravel applications that records every stage of the HTTP request lifecycle — from bootstrap... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-time-machine-a-request-lifecycle-profiler-ubehymlj2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ubEHymlj2.png og:image:alt: Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler **[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 3 min read · 32 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Laravel Time Machine is a new open-source performance profiler for Laravel applications that records every stage of the HTTP request lifecycle — from bootstrap through termination — with millisecond-level timings. It provides a Gantt-style timeline dashboard at /time-machine, captures SQL queries with bindings and execution times, flags slow requests (>500ms) and slow queries (>50ms), and stores profiles as flat JSON files without requiring database migrations. Custom instrumentation is available via a TimeMachine facade for marking points, measuring code blocks, and creating manual spans. Compared to Telescope and Debugbar, it occupies a middle ground: browsable request history like Telescope but focused solely on lifecycle timing, stored in flat files rather than a database. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What does the Laravel Time Machine package do? Laravel Time Machine is a performance profiler that records every stage of a Laravel request—bootstrap, middleware, routing, controller, response, and termination—with millisecond timings. It provides a Gantt-style timeline dashboard at /time-machine, captures SQL queries with bindings and execution time, flags requests over 500ms and queries over 50ms as slow, and stores profiles as flat JSON files instead of database tables. _Developers hunting request bottlenecks can find Laravel profiling tools like this one on daily.dev._ ### How is Laravel Time Machine different from Laravel Telescope and Debugbar? Telescope monitors many application areas—requests, jobs, mail, notifications, cache—and stores entries in a database, making it suited for full application monitoring. Debugbar renders a toolbar showing timing and query data only for the current page response. Time Machine sits between them: it keeps a browsable history of recent requests like Telescope but stores only lifecycle timing and query data in flat JSON files, focused specifically on where individual requests spend their time. _Choosing between Laravel debugging tools gets easier when comparisons like this surface on daily.dev._ ### Which Laravel versions does the Time Machine profiler package support? The laravel-time-machine package supports Laravel versions 8 through 13. It installs via Composer with auto-discovery handling the service provider and facade registration, and publishing the config file is optional using the time-machine-config tag. _Tracking package compatibility across Laravel versions is easier with updates like this on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@devdavidt** · 1 upvotes > Glad to see these new and development of Laravel! **@rgodiyal** · 0 upvotes > How its differ from laravel debugbar? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Laravel Brain: Visualize Your Application's Request Lifecycle](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-brain-visualize-your-application-s-request-lifecycle-7nug7p59g) · Laravel News · 153 upvotes · 12 comments - [Laravel Request Lifecycle Deep Dive: From Request to Response](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-request-lifecycle-deep-dive-from-request-to-response-rsrs5vaao) · W endell Adriel · 40 upvotes · 8 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), 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