igormatkovic/laravel-livelogger

Log and display you app live to your developers

#Laravel LiveLogger

Simple way to display live logs on a custom dashboard., _(*1)

The idea behind this was to have a TV on the office wall to display the data. And in a future release to send out a sound if there is a error or similar., _(*2)

This app uses Pusher.com to send the data. There will be a Websocket version also but since Pusher's free account allows up to 100k messages a day im not sure anybody is going to use it., _(*3)

Composer

    "require": {
        "igormatkovic/laravel-livelogger": "~1.0"
    }

Setup

In app/config/app.php, _(*4)

Comment the Laravel Log Service provider, _(*5)

    //'Illuminate\Log\LogServiceProvider',

And add this one:, _(*6)

    'Igormatkovic\Livelogger\LiveloggerServiceProvider',

Also change the Log alias:, _(*7)

From:, _(*8)

    'Log'       => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log',

To:, _(*9)

    'Log'       => 'Igormatkovic\Livelogger\Facades\Livelogger'

From the command line publish and edit the config:, _(*10)

    php artisan config:publish igormatkovic/laravel-livelogger

And insert your app data from Pusher.com, _(*11)

return array(

    'log_level'         => (getenv('log_level') ?: 'error'),
    'dateformat'        => (getenv('dateformat') ?: 'H:i:s'),
    'channel_name'      => (getenv('channel_name') ?: 'livelogger'),
    'pusher_app_id'     => (getenv('pusher_app_id') ?: 'pusher_app_id'),
    'pusher_api_key'    => (getenv('pusher_api_key') ?: 'pusher_api_key'),
    'pusher_api_secret' => (getenv('pusher_api_secret') ?: 'pusher_api_secret'),
    'pusher_use_ssl'    => (getenv('pusher_use_ssl') ?: false),
);

Or you can just insert the data in your .env.php to keep it out of GIT, _(*12)

Once you have added your data, just generate the livelogger dash html, _(*13)

    php artisan livelogger:generate

Then just open your $domain.com/livelogger.html to see whats getting logged, _(*14)

I would recommend using that URL as a iframe so you can put it in your custom dashboard., _(*15)

But you can just integrate it directly into your own view:, _(*16)

Don't forget to set your chanel_name and pusher_api_key, _(*17)

Keep in mind. The more log pushes you have the slower the site is going to be!, _(*18)

This app is for more critical parts of the app., _(*19)

TO DO

• Unit tests.
• Sound for critical events.
• Secure the URL with a token or something.
• Design a better output interface, this one sucks.