herrleinIT Log Handler

This Laravel 12 package captures every log record emitted by your application in real time and forwards it to an external HTTP endpoint while optionally continuing to write to existing log channels (e.g. single, daily).

Features

• Pushes every Monolog record to a configurable HTTP endpoint using Bearer token authentication.
• Installs as a stackable log channel so you can combine it with your existing file / daily / slack channels.
• Publishes a configuration file with sensible defaults and .env overrides for endpoint, token, timeouts, retries, and trace inclusion.
• Provides PHPUnit feature coverage to ensure integration behaviour within a Laravel 12 application.

Installation

Adding the private Git Repository to your composer.json:

"require": {
    "herrleinit/loghandler": "^1.0"
  },
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://git.hacker.schule/herrleinIT/loghandler.git"
    }
  ]

Laravel will auto-discover the LogHandlerServiceProvider.

Configuration

1. Publish the config (optional, but helpful for tweaking in code):

   php artisan vendor:publish --tag=loghandler-config
   

2. Environment variables – add these to your .env (defaults shown):

   LOGHANDLER_ENDPOINT=http://test.example/api/error/create
   LOGHANDLER_TOKEN=your-bearer-token
   LOGHANDLER_SOURCE="${APP_NAME}"
   LOGHANDLER_ENABLED=true
   LOGHANDLER_TIMEOUT_MS=3000
   LOGHANDLER_RETRY_TIMES=0
   LOGHANDLER_INCLUDE_TRACE=false
   

3. Logging stack – ensure the loghandler channel participates in your default stack:

   LOG_CHANNEL=stack
   LOG_STACK=single,loghandler
   

   This keeps the usual storage/logs/laravel.log file while forwarding every entry to the remote API. You can swap single for daily or any other channels you need.

4. Config cache – whenever you change logging env values, clear cached configuration:

   php artisan config:clear
   

Runtime Behaviour

• The package registers a custom Monolog handler through Log::extend('loghandler', ...) so it can be part of any stack or used standalone via Log::channel('loghandler').
• When enabled and provided with a token + endpoint, each LogRecord is transformed into the required JSON payload:

  {
    "source": "Project Name",
    "error": "Stack error",
    "type": "E_WARNING",
    "file": "/var/test/testfile.php",
    "line": "1337",
    "trace": "..."
  }
  

• Retries are configurable via retry_times, and include_trace toggles stack traces for non-exception logs.

Verifying Connectivity

To confirm logs reach your endpoint from a given environment, run:

php artisan tinker
>>> Log::error('LogHandler connectivity check', ['file' => __FILE__, 'line' => __LINE__]);

If your stack includes loghandler, that call will POST to the configured endpoint. Inspect the remote API or monitor network traffic to verify delivery.

Testing

The package ships with PHPUnit feature tests (tests/Feature/LogForwardingTest.php) built on Orchestra Testbench to verify:

• Exception payload forwarding
• Disabled / missing token branches
• Delivery via the default stack channel

From inside the package directory you can execute:

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.xml

When the package is installed inside a Laravel application (like this repo), you can also keep using the host app's suite:

php artisan test --filter=LogForwardingTest

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Need a different logging topology or additional telemetry fields? Extend LogForwarder or create another handler and register it alongside this package.