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Replacing Personal Agents with a dedicated Sandbox environment

We’re sunsetting the personal agent and replacing it with a first-class Sandbox environment now included on every paying plan.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Jun 19, 2026

Bring your own runner: Synthetic Monitoring with Blackfire Player

Blackfire’s built-in Synthetic Monitoring scheduler was convenient … until it wasn’t. We’re moving to Blackfire Player with –report, so your checks run from your own infrastructure, integrate with your CI/CD, and keep your secrets where they belong.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Apr 01, 2026

Blackfire now supports PHP 8.5

PHP 8.5 is out, and Blackfire supports it on release day.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Nov 21, 2025

Detective mode unlocked: introducing flexible search for deterministic profiles

You asked, we delivered. Deterministic profiles are now fully searchable.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Nov 17, 2025

8 billion requests per day and zero slowdowns: How SensioLabs scaled a Symfony-powered ad platform with Blackfire

How do you keep a Symfony app blazing fast under 8 billion daily requests? In this success story, discover how SensioLabs helped a leading ad-tech platform push the limits of performance and stay at the top of the ad tech game.

By Clément Bertillon, on Nov 05, 2025

Introducing Blackfire Doctor: the self-diagnosis tool for your setup

Configuring Blackfire can sometimes feel like a puzzle with too many missing pieces. With our new blackfire doctor CLI command, you can validate your installation, fix issues faster, and get back to what matters most: building great applications.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Oct 08, 2025

Observability 360 starts with full-stack alerting

Blackfire now supports alerting on browser performance metrics, putting frontend signals on equal footing with backend ones. It’s a crucial step toward full-stack visibility and a unified observability strategy.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Sep 10, 2025

Smarter sampling: We need your insights!

We’re exploring new ways to sample requests more intelligently, and we’d love your input.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Aug 27, 2025

Your users don’t care how fast your backend is [video]

You optimized every SQL query. Trimmed milliseconds from every endpoint. And still, your bounce rate is sky-high. Here’s why, in this 3-minute video.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Aug 13, 2025

Give your observability context: name your front-end transactions

You can now manually name front-end transactions in Blackfire’s Browser Monitoring to unlock smarter performance analysis and full-stack correlation.

By Thomas di Luccio, on Jul 30, 2025