How do i nicely decode Laravel failed jobs JSON

I too was having problem as I did not had direct access to production database. I created a route with auth and my controller returned json with all the failed jobs formatted. Here is controller code. With this I was also able to get formatted stack trace of exception due to which job failed

    public function getFailedJob()
    {
        #Fetch all the failed jobs
        $jobs = DB::table('failed_jobs')->select()->get();

        #Loop through all the failed jobs and format them for json printing
        foreach ($jobs as $job) {
            $jsonpayload = json_decode($job->payload);
            $job->payload = $jsonpayload;

            $jsonpayload->data->command = unserialize($jsonpayload->data->command);
            $job->exception  = explode("\n", $job->exception);
        }

        return response()->json($jobs);
    }

try this

$j = App\Models\Jobs::select('payload')->get();
$aw = json_decode($j[0]->payload)->data->command;
$cm = unserialize($aw);
dd($cm->payload);

Read from failed_jobs table

json_decode the payload from failed_jobs table

$jsonpayload = json_decode($payload);

unserialize the payload command

$data = unserialize($jsonpayload->data->command);
print_r($data);//This is the data passed to queue

I'd recommend handling the event as-it-happens and then storing any data you need in your own way. You can use Failed Job Events to capture all failed jobs: https://laravel.com/docs/master/queues#failed-job-events

Or you can use the failed() function on the job itself: https://laravel.com/docs/master/queues#dealing-with-failed-jobs

Otherwise, Marc's comment seems to make sense to me.