In this article on Laravel custom logs I will show you how to create custom log file in Laravel. With help of simple example I will show you the method for configuring and implementing custom log file. Using this example you can create custom log file in Laravel 6, Laravel 7, Laravel 8, 9 and Laravel 10 version.
Logging in Laravel
In Laravel framework the application logs are written to storage/logs/laravel.log file by default. You can tag the log entries with different names such as INFO, DEBUG and ERROR though. (Logs can also be stored in database but I won’t cover that in this article.)
Why to create Custom Log File?
Sometimes you may wish to create a different log file for specific task. For example, you are working with invoicing and you need a separate log file for invoicing information so that you can easily figure out issues or events related to invoicing.
Before creating a custom log file in Laravel I will show you the list of default channel drivers which exist in the Laravel by default.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
custom | A driver that calls a specified factory to create a channel |
daily | A RotatingFileHandler based Monolog driver which rotates daily |
errorlog | An ErrorLogHandler based Monolog driver |
monolog | A Monolog factory driver that may use any supported Monolog handler |
null | A driver that discards all log messages |
papertrail | A SyslogUdpHandler based Monolog driver |
single | A single file or path based logger channel (StreamHandler) |
slack | A SlackWebhookHandler based Monolog driver |
stack | A wrapper to facilitate creating “multi-channel” channels |
syslog | A SyslogHandler based Monolog driver |
How to Create Custom Log in Laravel?
In order to create a custom log file all you need to do is to add a channel with a new key name as shown below. Open the config/logging.php and add the following code to it. (make necessary changes)
...
'channels' => [
...
'invoicing' => [
'driver' => 'single',
'path' => storage_path('logs/invoicing.log'),
],
],Now in the code you can use it like:
\Log::channel('invoicing')->info('Something happened in invoicing!');
dd('log testing done!');Conclusion
In Laravel, the logs are written to laravel.log file by default. Howerver you can create your own custom log file by adding a new configuration entry to the config/logging.php file.
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