ShipSaaS Logger - Laravel Unique Request ID Logger

Laravel ShipSaasLogger enables the tracing of requests across servers by marking each request with a unique ID 🆔 for every log record of the given request.

Skyrocket your production debugging ⚒️.

Additionally, ShipSaasLogger solves the missing logs problem when you have a huge amount of traffic 😎. Making production logs more reliable and engineers won't have to scream "I can't find the logs" 🔥.

Supports

• Laravel 10+
• PHP 8.2+

Installation

Install the library:

composer require shipsaas/shipsaas-logger

Usage

We ship a new Logger driver called shipsaas-logger which handles:

• Create log file based on the requestId, e.g.: 7a559daf-f1fe-4a97-8eb8-40d0907c986b.log
• Write request-based logs there
• A fallback to the default log file, if requestId is not presented

Thus, it fixes the missing logs issue because we have independent log files and not yolo-write into 1 file (which will mess up the logs when having high traffic) 🚀

Nowadays, we can just tell Sumologic (or Cloudwatch, DataDog, etc.) to sync your log folder (a whole folder) 🔥. All your logs will be synced on the cloud.

Set up config/logging.php

Add a new channel called shipsaas-logger and change the configuration based on your needs

'shipsaas-logger' => [
    'driver' => 'shipsaas-logger',
    'path' => storage_path('logs/requests/laravel.log'), // can change to your desired path
    'default_log_file' => storage_path('logs/laravel.log'), // can change to your desired path
    'id-type' => 'ulid', // uuid, orderedUuid, ulid
    'use_json_format' => false, // set to true to write log as JSON
],

Update .env

Change the LOG_CHANNEL to shipsaas-logger

LOG_CHANNEL=shipsaas-logger

Play

Now that you have everything, hit some requests and try it out 😎.

class TransferController extends BaseController
{
    public function transfer(): JsonResponse
    {
        Log::info('begin transfer', [
            'amount' => ...,
            'recipient' => ...,
        ]); // this log will have uniqueRequestId
        
        // ...
        
        
        Log::info('transferred', [
            'amount' => ...,
            'recipient' => ...,
            'trasaction_id' => ...,
        ]); // this log will have uniqueRequestId
    }
}

And also congrats, no more "missing logs" pain for your app 😉.

Usage (Minimalism)

Inject Unique Request Id Logger Processor

By simply putting this piece of code into your AppServiceProvider:

// AppServiceProvider.php

use ShipSaasUniqueRequestLogger\UniqueRequestIdLoggerInitiator;

public function boot(): void
{
    $this->app->booted(fn () => UniqueRequestIdLoggerInitiator::init());
}

Play

Now that you have injected ShipSaaS Logger, hit some requests and try it out 😎.

Note: The Minimalism way only injects the UniqueRequestID generation into your application, it won't have any improvement for missing logs issue.

Testing

Run composer test 😆

Contributors

• Seth Phat

Contributions & Support the Project

Feel free to submit any PR, please follow PSR-1/PSR-12 coding conventions and testing is a must.

If this package is helpful, please give it a ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Thank you!

License

MIT License