Laravel Telemetry Log

Structured telemetry for Laravel. Ships events straight to your log channels, so whatever log driver you use (stack, Axiom, Better Stack, Papertrail, stderr) doubles as your observability pipeline.

Today this is a request logging middleware. The package is structured to grow additional sensors (queued jobs, scheduled tasks, artisan commands, cache, mail, exceptions) as sibling features under the same config root.

Installation

composer require devtime-ltd/laravel-observability-log

Request logging middleware

LogRequest logs structured request data (method, URL, status, duration, query stats, memory) to one or more log channels.

Setup

Register the middleware in bootstrap/app.php:

use DevtimeLtd\LaravelObservabilityLog\LogRequest;

->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    $middleware->prepend(LogRequest::class);
})

Set the channel to log to:

LOG_REQUESTS_CHANNEL=axiom

Can also pass multiple channels (e.g. axiom,betterstack) for logging to multiple providers. Leave unset to disable, the middleware is a no-op without this env var.

Note: Logging happens inline in handle() rather than terminate(). We found terminate() didn't fire in all hosting setups.

Logged fields

Options

Publish the config file with php artisan vendor:publish --tag=observability-log. Options live under config/observability-log.php in the requests section.

Log message

The log message used for request entries. Default: 'http.request'.

'requests' => [
    'message' => env('LOG_REQUESTS_MESSAGE', 'http.request'),
],

This makes it easy to distinguish request logs from application logs (e.g. Log::error()) when they share the same log destination.

You can also override the message at runtime via LogRequest::message() in your AppServiceProvider::boot(), either a fixed string or a callback:

use DevtimeLtd\LaravelObservabilityLog\LogRequest;

// Fixed string
LogRequest::message('api.request');

// Dynamic based on request
LogRequest::message(function ($request, $response) {
    return $request->is('api/*') ? 'api.request' : 'web.request';
});

This takes precedence over the config value. Pass null to revert to the config default.

Log level

The PSR-3 log level that request entries are logged at. Default: 'info'.

'requests' => [
    'level' => env('LOG_REQUESTS_LEVEL', 'info'),
],

Database query collection

Disable query measurement to skip the DB::listen() overhead:

'requests' => [
    'collect_queries' => false,
],

This omits query_count, query_total_ms, and slow_queries from the log entry. Default: true.

Slow query threshold

Threshold in milliseconds for capturing slow queries:

'requests' => [
    'slow_query_threshold' => 500,
],

Set to null to disable slow query collection while still tracking query_count and query_total_ms. Default: 100.

IP obfuscation

Mask client IPs using the built-in ObfuscateIp class. Supports four levels.

use DevtimeLtd\LaravelObservabilityLog\ObfuscateIp;

'requests' => [
    'obfuscate_ip' => ObfuscateIp::level(2),
],

You can also pass any callable for custom masking:

'requests' => [
    'obfuscate_ip' => fn (?string $ip) => 'redacted',
],

Default: false (no masking).

Extending log entries

Use LogRequest::extend() to add project-specific fields, or overwrite default ones. Call this in your AppServiceProvider::boot():

use DevtimeLtd\LaravelObservabilityLog\LogRequest;

LogRequest::extend(function ($request, $response, $entry) {
    $entry['tenant_id'] = $request->header('X-Tenant-ID');
    return $entry;
});

Custom log entry

If you wish to completely replace the default log entry fields with your own, use LogRequest::using(). The callback receives the request, response, and a measurements array:

use DevtimeLtd\LaravelObservabilityLog\LogRequest;

LogRequest::using(function ($request, $response, $measurements) {
    return [
        'method' => $request->method(),
        'path' => $request->path(),
        'status' => $response?->getStatusCode(),
        'duration_ms' => $measurements['duration_ms'],
    ];
});

$measurements contains the collected metrics based on config: duration_ms, memory_peak_mb, and when query collection is enabled, query_count, query_total_ms, slow_queries.

Note that extend() runs after using(), so you can utilise both in a request lifecycle.

Testing

composer test

License

MIT