# Introduction

Source: https://laraport.app/docs/

> laraport is a terminal UI for Laravel apps in Docker, locally or over SSH: logs, Tinker, queues and Horizon, databases and files, nothing to install.

laraport is a terminal UI for Laravel apps that run in Docker, on your machine or on servers you reach over SSH. It replaces the chain of `ssh`, `docker ps`, `docker exec -it … php artisan …` with a few keypresses, and it shows what those commands only print: the state of a container, its logs, its queues, its database tables and its files.

## What you can do with it

- **See every container** of every server in one list, grouped by project the way Coolify, Dokploy, Swarm and Compose group them, with live CPU and memory. `c` on the home screen checks every server at once.
- **Jump to any container** with `ctrl+p`, from any screen, even on another server.
- **Open a container** and get a summary of it: health, restarts, ports, the detected stack, and for Laravel apps the versions, environment, drivers and caches from `artisan about`.
- **Read logs** of one container or of a whole project, search them, filter by level, jump between errors. Multi-gigabyte log files open instantly, and the errors summary groups a log's exceptions by kind.
- **Find out what happened**: which containers died, ran out of memory or restarted, from Docker's events.
- **Work with the Laravel app**: run Artisan with autocomplete, run PHP in Tinker, watch queues and Horizon, see the schedule and run a task now, list the routes, check the environment against `.env.example`, and run the commands a deploy ends with.
- **Browse and edit the database** the app uses, as a table, with every change shown as SQL before it runs. Restore a dump, browse Redis keys, or open a tunnel for TablePlus or RedisInsight.
- **Redeploy, roll back and scale** Swarm services, and pull and recreate Compose services.
- **Browse, view, edit, upload and download files** in a Midnight Commander-style panel.
- **Keep the server tidy**: images, volumes and networks with their sizes and users, update checks, pruning.
- **Stay safe**: mark a server read-only, and look back at every change laraport made in the journal.

## How it works

laraport runs on your computer. It connects to each server over SSH (or uses the local Docker socket) and runs `docker` commands there, the same commands you would type. Nothing is installed on the server or in the containers.

Inside a Laravel container it runs small PHP probes in the booted app to read what the app itself knows: its database connections, its queues and Horizon, its schedule. That is why it works with any queue driver or database without needing direct access to them.

Secrets never travel on a command line: passwords and code are passed over stdin. Anything that changes data asks first and shows the exact command or SQL it will run. See [Security and privacy](https://laraport.app/docs/security/).

## Next steps

- [Install laraport](https://laraport.app/docs/installation/)
- [Connect your first server](https://laraport.app/docs/quick-start/)