---
title: Usage
order: 2
---

## Usage

If you run your application in the `debug` mode, the query monitor will be automatically active. So there is nothing you have to do.

By default, this package will display an `alert()` message to notify you about an N+1 query found in the current request. 

If you rather want this information to be written to your `laravel.log` file, written to your browser's console log as a warning or listed in a new tab for the [Laravel Debugbar (barryvdh/laravel-debugbar)](https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar), you can publish the configuration and change the output behaviour (see example below).

You can publish the package's configuration using this command:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="BeyondCode\QueryDetector\QueryDetectorServiceProvider"
```

This will add the `querydetector.php` file in your config directory with the following contents:

```php
return [
    /*
     * Enable or disable the query detection.
     * If this is set to "null", the app.debug config value will be used.
     */
    'enabled' => env('QUERY_DETECTOR_ENABLED', null),

    /*
     * Threshold level for the N+1 query detection. If a relation query will be
     * executed more then this amount, the detector will notify you about it.
     */
    'threshold' => (int) env('QUERY_DETECTOR_THRESHOLD', 1),

    /*
     * Here you can whitelist model relations.
     *
     * Right now, you need to define the model relation both as the class name and the attribute name on the model.
     * So if an "Author" model would have a "posts" relation that points to a "Post" class, you need to add both
     * the "posts" attribute and the "Post::class", since the relation can get resolved in multiple ways.
     */
    'except' => [
        //Author::class => [
        //    Post::class,
        //    'posts',
        //]
    ],

    /*
     * Define the output format that you want to use. Multiple classes are supported.
     * Available options are:
     *
     * Alert:
     * Displays an alert on the website
     * \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Alert::class
     *
     * Console:
     * Writes the N+1 queries into your browsers console log
     * \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Console::class
     *
     * Clockwork: (make sure you have the itsgoingd/clockwork package installed)
     * Writes the N+1 queries warnings to Clockwork log
     * \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Clockwork::class
     *
     * Debugbar: (make sure you have the barryvdh/laravel-debugbar package installed)
     * Writes the N+1 queries into a custom messages collector of Debugbar
     * \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Debugbar::class
     *
     * JSON:
     * Writes the N+1 queries into the response body of your JSON responses
     * \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Json::class
     *
     * Log:
     * Writes the N+1 queries into the Laravel.log file
     * \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Log::class
     */
    'output' => [
        \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Log::class,
        \BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Outputs\Alert::class,
    ]

];
```

If you use **Lumen**, you need to copy the config file manually and register the Lumen Service Provider in `bootstrap/app.php` file

```php
$app->register(\BeyondCode\QueryDetector\LumenQueryDetectorServiceProvider::class);
```

If you need additional logic to run when the package detects unoptimized queries, you can listen to the `\BeyondCode\QueryDetector\Events\QueryDetected` event and write a listener to run your own handler. (e.g. send warning to Sentry/Bugsnag, send Slack notification, etc.)