---
title: 'Laravel Queue Zero to Hero - Horizon, Dashboard review and production setup'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZreRJq-lRSg'
video_id: 'ZreRJq-lRSg'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 653
---

# Laravel Queue Zero to Hero - Horizon, Dashboard review and production setup

> Source: [Laravel Queue Zero to Hero - Horizon, Dashboard review and production setup](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZreRJq-lRSg)

## Summary

This video demonstrates how to install, configure, and use Laravel Horizon to manage queues and jobs, including setting up Redis, running Horizon, and securing the dashboard. The presenter shows a live example from the Kodi Pals project and explains how to configure multiple supervisors for different queues.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Horizon** [0:00] — Horizon is a Laravel package that helps manage queues and jobs with a beautiful dashboard showing running, pending, and failed jobs.
- **Installation Steps** [0:44] — Install via Composer: `composer require laravel/horizon`. Then run `php artisan horizon:install` to publish config and assets.
- **Configuration Overview** [1:46] — The config file `config/horizon.php` contains settings for environments (production, local) and supervisors. Key is to set queue connection to Redis.
- **Redis Connection Setup** [2:30] — Change queue connection from database to Redis in `.env` file. Configure Redis host, password, etc. The presenter uses Docker and a PaaS with ready Redis.
- **Running Horizon** [3:59] — Run `php artisan horizon` to start the Horizon process. The dashboard shows job statistics and auto-balances processes using `balance: auto`.
- **Multiple Queues and Supervisors** [4:48] — For multiple queues (e.g., slow and fast), define separate supervisors in the config. Each supervisor can be assigned specific queues and process limits.
- **Assigning Jobs to Queues** [6:25] — In a job class, use `public $queue = 'queue-name';` to specify which queue the job should run on.
- **Restarting Horizon After Code Changes** [7:00] — Any changes to job code require restarting Horizon for the changes to take effect.
- **Securing the Dashboard** [8:05] — In `AppServiceProvider`, use the `Horizon::auth()` gate to restrict access. Example: check if user email is in an admins array.
- **Failed Jobs Management** [9:57] — The dashboard shows failed jobs with error details. After fixing the error, you can retry the failed job.

### Conclusion

Laravel Horizon simplifies queue management with a powerful dashboard and auto-balancing. Proper configuration of Redis, supervisors, and access gates ensures efficient and secure job processing.

## Transcript

Horizon is a awesome Laurel package
which help you to manage your cues and
jobs and it it has a beautiful dashboard
which you can see how much jobs is
running and how much phase how much runs
pending and other things now let me show
you in this video uh how we use it in
Kodi Pals and also how we use it in
other projects we can also configure it
for yourself in any projects and I will
just talk about the basics so this video
should be quick and don't forget to
subscribe and like this video if you
like if you're interested okay let's go
um
so I'm in the quadri pals and uh
installing Horizon first the mod first
go to learn documents document
and
as you can see in here on the packages
there is a horizon package in here
there's a documentation it's completed
and we don't need anything else but I
will go through this document and let me
show you how we configure it our
application so first we need to install
the prison so just I'm using the sale
composite require larval Horizon and
everything is ready in my project then
we must do publish some configs and
install the Horizon uh
here so after this
okay we just need to use the sale
Artisan Horizon install and everything
is ready in here so uh you may see some
files that add to your projects uh one
of the file is Horizon on the config
file a config folder and this is the
basic config of the Horizon and it's
good to see and we will check this about
the
we have just something about this
default and supervisor in here if you're
using on production and local and
everything else you can config the
things in here uh the
important things is about the production
which we use this
uh but for now just we are changing
something on defaults and I will show
you there uh but before using the person
we must to put a change our color
connection to Q connection to reduce as
you may see in here on the previous
video we did it on the database and here
we must do change it to radius and after
you change it to radius you must to
configure already's host and password
important other things uh I'm using here
a Docker as you may see in the could we
pass project also on production we have
a pass a platform as a service we are
using that and there is a ready stair
which we can connect to that redis
and here we are just using our cache
sending our cues to redis and the
Horizon View watch our cues and run them
and it gives us good
data so how we can run it but before
running any commands here for running
Horizon you must do
go on localhost
and
reason address and as you can see here
there is some jobs and activities and
other things but this sort of you know
and if you see I have some completed job
but not for now
and it's the failed job and other things
in here but let me activate this version
for activating Horizon we just need to
run artisan
Horizon
and everything will be fine in here so
as you can see we are using the Q
default in here and the process will
change why this has changed it's because
of the on the config as you can see we
are using balance Auto and this balance
Auto will be balance our processes
between the super multiple supervisor
wizard
and this will change this process and if
you have a lot of jobs in EQ it will
increase the process and manage by
itself
so we don't
need to change a lot this Horizon but if
you have multiple cues uh like we in a
project we had a lot of cues and a lot
of jobs fire on two queues and one queue
was about making another jobs making
some jobs for another queue and uh we
had a slow q and fast and in Horizon we
just separate them by each other and it
helps us to gives more process to
this queue to run faster and
do more jobs and the slower do some more
do some less and how we can do this in
here as you can see we have some super
Resort also on production and local we
have things but I will change this
default if your environment was the
production this will be run in here but
here on supervisor I can make another
super wizard here and we can change the
queues in here uh the Q name in here
which will reach supervisor will run
which cubes here so we have defaults in
Kodi files we don't have too much cues
but
you can check you can Define uh which
queue which job in run in which queue on
the job
let me find the job in the
there is this is a job
you just need to
public
queue let me see
yes
this is and just name it something like
a Discord
it's the job of the Discord and here I
can just run this
Discord in here don't forget to
uh it's running like this
restart the Horizon oh if you change any
code on your jobs you need to change you
need to restart the Horizon in your
local
others it will not run and as you can
see we have a Discord and the default in
here and if the Discord jobs increases
the process will be increases in here
but there is some also limitations like
how Max process we have and other things
that you can see in here
so
just one more step we are using Horizon
also in production uh with uh as here
let me show you
which The Horizon in here could we Pals
for reason and you see the Forbidden in
here because I'm not logged in and if I
log in by my accounts
here
okay
so I can see the Horizon in here and
everything will be fine
but how to prevent
other users to access this Horizon
because we don't want to act we don't
want them to access this
there's an ability on Horizon service
provider which you can see in here on
the gate
in this case
as you can see there is a user and in
email we in Array which will check which
user can access to the Horizon by
default it's empty so how we config this
we made on the horizon in here
make some make an array called admins
and put the admins email in here which
My email is
this and here we can instead of the
empty array uh called uh Verizon
to make mistake and admins it's in here
and by default we have a empty array in
here
so this little bit code will prevent
other user to access the Horizon and
just add means we Define will be
accessed here also you can put a complex
logic here like if your system has a
rule rule and permissions you can check
in here it's uh it's a gate and
hopefully we could talk about the gates
and policies in future in some video
okay so let's check some features of the
Horizon on the horizon dashboard as you
can see I have a lot of failed job in
the code V Pals and in here on the fail
job we can see what happened and what's
the error in here
so there is some error and if you fix
the error and push the codes you just
need to retry this and it will be run
another time and all everything will be
fine
and this things
okay thank you for watching I try to
explain how we use Horizon and go to
vitals and some
examples so if you interest in this kind
of video please like And subscribe to
the channel and in the next video I see
you we want to talk more about the queue
and the jobs so goodbye