Monitor Webhooks in Laravel
Debug webhook issues in real-time
The problem
Webhooks are essential but notoriously hard to debug in Laravel. A third-party service sends data to your endpoint. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. And when it fails, you are left guessing what went wrong.
The typical debugging flow is painful: check your logs, search for the request, try to reconstruct the payload, figure out why your controllers did not handle it correctly. If the webhook does not retry, you might lose that data entirely.
Testing webhooks locally in your Laravel development environment is another headache. You need tunnels, mock payloads, and a lot of patience. Production issues are even worse because you cannot easily reproduce them.
The solution
Quicklog captures every webhook payload as it arrives at your Laravel app. You see the full request body, headers, and any processing results. When something fails, you have the complete picture.
Create a channel for each webhook source. Stripe events go to one channel, Clerk to another. You can filter, search, and trace issues across your entire webhook infrastructure.
Add your own context too. Log what your controllers did in response to each webhook. Now you can see not just what arrived, but what happened next. Debugging becomes tracing a clear timeline instead of hunting through scattered Laravel logs.
Why monitor this?
- See webhook payloads in real-time
- Debug integration issues faster
- Track processing success and failure
Quick setup
Add tracking to your Laravel app:
<?php
// Using Quicklog REST API
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
// Monitor Webhooks
Http::withToken(env('QUICKLOG_API_KEY'))
->post('https://api.quicklog.io/v1/events', [
'channel' => 'webhooks',
'event' => 'webhook.received',
'description' => 'Describe what happened',
'user' => [
'id' => $user->id,
'email' => $user->email,
'name' => $user->name,
],
'metadata' => [
// Add relevant context here
],
]);Laravel tips
- Exclude webhook routes from CSRF verification in VerifyCsrfToken middleware
- Use Laravel webhook-client package for signature verification and routing
- Log webhook payloads to Quicklog in a queued job to avoid timeout issues
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