Documentation

Installation - Install, enable and connect your MCP client
For AI agents - The MCP tools and how an agent uses them
Artisan commands - The same data from the terminal
Dashboard - The same data in your browser
Tracing - How a page, its calls, jobs and processes are linked
Browser tracing - Linking a page's fetch and XHR calls, and the Monocle button on the page
What gets recorded - Every lens and what it records
Spans and metadata - Measure your own code
Writing a lens - Record something Monocle does not know about
Third-party lenses - Lenses for other packages, maintained by others
Configuration - Every option in config/monocle.php
Storage - Where captures are kept

Where things are

Looking for	Page
Turning Monocle on or off	Installation
`monocle:install`	Installation
`monocle-list`, `monocle-show`, `monocle-rows`, ...	For AI agents
`X-Monocle-Id`, `X-Monocle-Label`	For AI agents
`Monocle::span()`, `measure()`, `mark()`, `meta()`, `label()`	Spans and metadata
Stopping a span somewhere else	Spans and metadata
Turning lenses on, off or adding your own	Configuration
Masking secrets	Configuration
Recording `Storage` disks	Filesystem
Request phases	Request
Linking pages, jobs and processes into a trace	Tracing
Jumping from a page to its captures	Browser tracing
N+1 and slow query warnings	Database