RootTrace
RootTrace / Integrations / PHP APM
APM & OpenTelemetry
PHP APM that flushes when the request ends.
Build the wrapper from apm/php in this repository. It aggregates metrics, transactions, errors, and trace samples in memory and posts one payload as the request finishes.
What RootTrace watches
Every reading is checked continuously; bad readings become grouped issues with the evidence attached. RootTrace also remembers whether it has seen the same incident before.
- Endpoint percentilesp50/p95/p99 latency and throughput per endpoint.
- Grouped errorsExceptions and errors grouped with counts.
- Traces & spansPer-request waterfalls with dependency timing.
- Request-end flushOne ingest payload per request lifecycle: predictable overhead.
Warn and fail thresholds, prefilled
Sensible defaults out of the box, overridable per host with environment variables. No threshold spreadsheet required on day one.
- Latency and error-rate anomalies open issues automatically
Setup
# No Composer package is published. Use the source under apm/php in this repository.
Outbound HTTPS only: the wrapper aggregates in memory and posts to the API; nothing listens on your hosts and nothing touches production.
The PHP wrapper is a source-only reference implementation.
Questions, answered honestly
Does it work under FPM?
Yes. The flush-at-request-end model is built for FPM and similar lifecycles, where a background flusher thread is not an option.
Is this safe to run next to production?
The collector is read-only by architecture, not by policy: there is no write path, no remediation executor, and no privileged mode to switch on. It sends short-lived outbound HTTPS requests, opens no inbound ports, and redacts credential-like evidence before anything leaves the host.
Do I need a separate agent for this?
No. One RootTrace collector per host covers every integration on this site: databases, web servers, containers, endpoints, and the Linux host itself, all from one signed package or container. You point it at targets with environment variables; there is nothing else to deploy.
Related integrations
Free on 5 hosts. Live in minutes.
Create a workspace, install one collector, and watch issues explain themselves.