Laravel Queue Workers: Scaling with Horizon 2026

Why Horizon?

Production dashboard for Redis queues:

• Real-time metrics
• Auto-balancing workers
• Failed job management
• Notifications (Slack/SMS)

Configuration

'defaults' => [
                    'supervisor-1' => [
                        'connection' => 'redis',
                        'queue' => ['default', 'ai-processing'],
                        'balance' => 'auto',
                        'maxProcesses' => 10,
                        'tries' => 3,
                    ],
                ],

We process 100K+ AI jobs daily using Horizon.