Laravel logging

laravel-logging.md

Laravel logging

Laravel provides logging services that allow you to log errors, messages, events and uses Monolog, a powerful popular PHP logging library for all its logging needs.

Configuration

config/logging.php 

Log levels

• emergency,
• alert,
• critical,
• error,
• warning,
• notice,
• info,
• debug.

Namespace

Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log`

Writing log messages

• Log::emergency('Log message comes here');
• Log::alert('Log message comes here');
• Log::critical('Log message comes here');
• Log::error('Log message comes here');
• Log::warning('Log message comes here');
• Log::notice('Log message comes here');
• Log::info('Log message comes here');
• Log::debug('Log message comes here');

Passing an array of contextual data

Log::info('Log message with contextual data.', ['name' => $user->name]);

Output:

[2019-03-15 11:17:42] local.INFO: Log message with contextual data. {"name":"John doe"} 

Writing To Specific Channels

Log::channel('slack')->error('Something went wrong');

Documentation

• Laravel logging official documentation
• Monolog
• Log level specification