Looking to improve the user experience of MoonGuard Filament Plugin, we realized that the only
way to know when a site is under maintenance is by reviewing its configuration, which motivated
us to add an indicator in the "sites stats" of the dashboard, we also contemplated that there was
no mechanism that would allow us to eliminate very old exceptions in the database, those that
occurred a long time ago and that we could consider as irrelevant information.
In this article we will explore how we add the functionality.
Adding maintenance indicator
Normally we use these site stats to visualize the uptime, ssl-certificate and number of exceptions
that our sites have, so we had the idea to improve this by adding an indicator of when the sites are
under maintenance.
To achieve this, we update our Filament widget site-stats-widget.blade.php by adding a conditional
that is executed when there is a date of the down_for_maintenance_at property of the site model.
We also updated the widget components uptime-list-item.blade.php, performance-list-item.blade.php and certificate-list-
item.blade.php so that they are not activated when in maintenance in
order not to confuse us and improve the user experience.
The final result was the following.
These small details are what polish and improve the user experience using MoonGuard.
If you want to see more detailed code you can see the PR on Github.
Add command to clean exceptions
We have a productive MoonGuard in which we have been testing its functionalities for the last 2-3
months with real projects and we realized that we needed a way to clean (automatically) very old
exceptions that were no longer relevant, so we decided to create a new command and schedule it
in the server scheduler to run periodically.
We created the command DeleteOldExceptionCommand , where all those exceptions that are older
than the time specified in the MoonGuard configuration are deleted periodically:
class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
$schedule->command(DeleteOldExceptionCommand::class)->everyMinute();
}
}
This command works similar to the other MoonGuard commands (The CheckUptimeCommand
and CheckSslCertificateCommand) you can schedule the execution of this command or use the
MoonGuardCommandsScheduler if you want to schedule these three commands:
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule): void
{
MoonGuardCommandsScheduler::scheduleMoonGuardCommands(
$schedule,
'* * * * *',
'* * * * *',
'* * * * *'
);
}
For more information on programming these commands you can visit the MoonGuard documentation.
You can also read in detail the related changes in this PR on GitHub.
If you want to learn more about MoonGuard Filament Plugin, we invite you to read our book
MoonGuard: The Software Creator's Journey V2 where we talk in detail about how we created
each of the MoonGuard features as a Filament v3 plugin.
If you want to learn more about MoonGuard you can visit the page, follow us on Twitter/X and join
our discord community for more information.
