there are several PHP and Laravel tools that provide out-of-the-box solutions to generate dashboards, graphs, and panels based on SQL queries or Eloquent queries, making it easy to create analytics and monitoring dashboards without much front-end coding. Here are some top options:

1. Laravel Nova

Laravel Nova is a premium Laravel admin panel package developed by the Laravel team. Nova allows you to create dashboards, panels, and metrics easily, with a minimal setup required to create graphs or charts. You can use SQL queries, Eloquent models, or Laravel collections to generate the data.

• Pros: Highly customizable, beautiful interface, and built directly by Laravel’s developers. It’s specifically built for Laravel applications, so it integrates well with Eloquent.
• Cons: It’s a paid solution, so there is a licensing fee.
• Use case: Ideal if you want a robust admin panel and dashboard with deep integration into Laravel.

Example usage:

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This can then be visualized directly in Nova with various widgets for graphs and stats.

2. Laravel Admin Panel Generators (Like Voyager or Backpack)

• Voyager (Voyager on GitHub) and Backpack (Backpack for Laravel) are popular Laravel admin panel packages.
• They don’t automatically generate graphs from SQL queries alone, but they provide admin panel setups with built-in CRUD operations. For data visualization, you can integrate charting libraries like Chart.js or Highcharts.

Both have active communities and work well for creating admin panels and dashboards.

3. Laravel Dashboard (By Spatie)

Laravel Dashboard by Spatie is an open-source package that helps you build custom dashboards with widgets. It doesn’t automatically generate charts from SQL, but it provides a flexible way to create widgets on the front end, which can pull data from any SQL query or API endpoint you define.

• Pros: Highly customizable, with flexibility to use any data source.
• Cons: Requires custom configuration, and doesn’t provide automatic data visualization from raw SQL.
• Use case: Great if you need a flexible, widget-based dashboard with custom data sources and don’t mind coding the visualizations.

4. Metabase

Metabase is a business intelligence (BI) tool that isn’t Laravel-specific but is excellent for generating dashboards directly from SQL queries with minimal setup. You can embed Metabase dashboards into a Laravel application.

• Pros: Great SQL-based dashboard creation with easy embedding options. Open-source and supports various databases.
• Cons: Needs configuration as a standalone service outside Laravel.
• Use case: Best for robust data visualization and analysis needs, especially when you want to avoid deep integration with Laravel.

5. Grafana with Laravel Integration

Grafana is a powerful open-source platform for monitoring and observability, commonly used with databases like MySQL and Postgres. You can embed Grafana charts into a Laravel application, and it’s highly suited for generating dynamic dashboards based on SQL queries.

• Pros: Robust visualization options, real-time data support.
• Cons: Like Metabase, it’s not Laravel-native and needs to run separately.
• Use case: Perfect if you need real-time data and monitoring with extensive charting options.

6. QuickAdminPanel

QuickAdminPanel is a Laravel generator tool that includes various dashboard and admin features, allowing you to create CRUD panels and includes some analytics widgets. You can create basic graphs and charts and embed SQL-based reports.

• Pros: Fast setup for CRUD and reporting, and comes with Laravel-focused support.
• Cons: Limited in terms of in-depth analytics or custom dashboard widgets compared to other solutions.
• Use case: Works well if you need a quick setup for an admin panel with some basic reporting widgets.

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