Log activity inside your Laravel app

The webqamdev/activity-logger package automatically log model changes from users into database and log files.

Dependencies

This package use spatie/laravel-activitylog to store logs in database. Feel free to configure it if needed or just follow Installation instructions.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require webqamdev/activity-logger

The package will automatically register itself.

Configure spatie/laravel-activitylog. By default, run those commands :

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Activitylog\ActivitylogServiceProvider" --tag="activitylog-migrations"
php artisan migrate

You can optionally publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Webqamdev\ActivityLogger\ActivityLoggerServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Usage

Model Configuration & Detailed Logs

To enable detailed logging and ensure the logs follow the standard Spatie format (recording changes with old and attributes values in attribute_changes), your model must use the Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Concerns\LogsActivity trait and implement the getActivitylogOptions method.

Set $enableLoggingModelsEvents = false on the model to avoid duplicate logs (this package already listens to Eloquent events).

This is necessary to achieve the following structure in your logs (showing what changed):

[
   'old' => [
        'name' => 'original name',
        'text' => 'Lorum',
    ],
    'attributes' => [
        'name' => 'updated name',
        'text' => 'Lorum',
    ],
]

Example:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Concerns\LogsActivity;
use Spatie\Activitylog\Support\LogOptions;

class User extends Model
{
    use LogsActivity;

    public bool $enableLoggingModelsEvents = false;

    /**
     * Configure the activity logging rules.
     */
    public function getActivitylogOptions(): LogOptions
    {
        return LogOptions::defaults()
            ->logAll()        // Log all attributes...
            ->logOnlyDirty(); // ...but only store changes
    }
}

Globally hide a property

Publish config file. Then add entries to properties_hidden array.

Hide a Model property

Create your model normally, then define hidden properties.

class User extends Model {

    /**
     * The attributes that shouldn't be logged in activity logger.
     * 
     * @var array 
     */
    public $logAttributesToIgnore = [
        'password',
        'phone',
    ];

     ...
}

Disable logs into database

Add ACTIVITY_LOGGER_TO_DATABASE=false to your .env file will prevent logger from writing into database.

Change files permission

If not already done, publish config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Webqamdev\ActivityLogger\ActivityLoggerServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Add channel.permission to your config/activitylogger.php file like this exemple:

'channel' => [
    'path'       => storage_path('logs/activity.log'),
    'level'      => 'debug',
    'days'       => 14,
    'permission' => 0644, // Default value, equivalent to bash's rw-r--r--
],

Upgrading

Please see UPGRADING for details.

About

This package requires Laravel 12+ and PHP 8.4+. It is a plugin for auto-logging model activities.

Gitlab repository : Activity logger for Laravel Github repository : Activity logger for Laravel