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The LaraOwl server is a standard Laravel 13 application. If your environment already runs modern Laravel apps, it will run LaraOwl. The Docker image ships with everything preconfigured — these requirements apply to Composer (bare-metal) installs.
These requirements are for the LaraOwl server. The laraowl/client package you install into monitored apps only needs a Laravel application running PHP 8.3+.

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PHP

  • PHP 8.3 or higher

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Required PHP extensions

Laravel’s standard extensions plus a few LaraOwl needs for image handling, math, and queue workers:

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Database

LaraOwl supports any Laravel-compatible relational database. For production, choose one of:
  • PostgreSQL 13+ (recommended — the default for the Docker image)
  • MySQL 8.0+ / MariaDB 10.6+
SQLite is fine for local evaluation but not recommended for production. LaraOwl ingests high volumes of concurrent writes, which SQLite handles poorly.

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Supporting services

LaraOwl relies on background processing and real-time broadcasting. In production you need:

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Frontend build tooling

The dashboard is a React + Inertia SPA. Composer installs need Node.js to build assets:
  • Node.js 18 or higher
  • npm (bundled with Node.js)
Node.js is a build-time requirement only. Once assets are compiled with npm run build, no Node.js process is needed at runtime.