Why telescope:clear Is Slow and How to Reclaim Disk in Seconds

A while back I wrote about laravel-telescope-flusher - a tiny package I built to wipe Telescope data without waiting forever. It just hit 1,000 installs on Packagist 🎉, so it felt like the right time to actually back up the original post with real numbers, not just claims. So I sat down, seeded a million Telescope entries on a fresh MySQL 8.0, and timed the three things you'd reach for: telescope:clear , telescope:prune , and telescope:flush . Spoiler: the gap is bigger than I expected. Quick r