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visualbox/sentinel
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Official Laravel agent for Sentinel. Batched telemetry for the VisualBox observability platform.

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Sentinel
========

[](#sentinel)

Official Laravel agent for Sentinel by VisualBox Solutions.

Composer package: `visualbox/sentinel`

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require visualbox/sentinel
php artisan sentinel:install
```

Configure `.env`:

```
SENTINEL_ENABLED=true
SENTINEL_TOKEN=sent_live_xxxxx
SENTINEL_ENDPOINT=https://your-sentinel-host
SENTINEL_SAMPLE_RATE=1.0
```

`SENTINEL_ENDPOINT` is the URL of your Sentinel instance (for example `https://sentinel.example.com`).

Features (MVP)
--------------

[](#features-mvp)

- Collectors: requests, queries, exceptions, queue jobs
- Trace context (`trace_id`, `span_id`, `parent_span_id`)
- Payload redaction (passwords, tokens, headers)
- Sampling with retention of exceptions, failures, and slow requests
- Batched buffer with gzip HTTP transport to `/api/v1/telemetry`
- Retry/backoff and circuit breaker
- Heartbeat to `/api/v1/heartbeat`
- `sentinel:status` command

Development
-----------

[](#development)

```
composer install
composer test
```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 12% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity0

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity11

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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