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Log Alarm for Laravel

Log Alarm is a robust and easy-to-use Laravel package designed to enhance your application's logging capabilities. Whether you're running a small web app or a large enterprise system, Log Alarm helps you stay on top of your logs by providing real-time monitoring, error detection, and instant notifications via Slack and email.

✨ Features

• Real-time Log Monitoring: Continuously listen for log events and keep track of your application's health.
• Error Detection: Automatically detect and respond to error log events.
• Customizable Notifications: Send instant notifications to Slack and email when errors occur.
• Frequency Control: Set thresholds and delays to avoid notification flooding.
• Cache-based Alert System: Efficiently track error occurrences without the overhead of database operations.
• Flexible Configuration: Easily configure settings and specify error conditions with custom strings.

Why Choose Log Alarm?

In today's fast-paced digital environment, timely responses to application issues are crucial. Log Alarm ensures that you and your team are promptly informed about critical errors, reducing downtime and improving your application's reliability. Perfect for developers, system administrators, and DevOps teams looking to enhance their monitoring capabilities.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7
• Laravel >= 5

⬇️ Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require saasscaleup/laravel-log-alarm

For Laravel < 5.5

Add Service Provider to config/app.php in providers section

Saasscaleup\LogAlarm\LogAlarmServiceProvider::class,

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Publish package's config file

Publish package's config, migration and view files by running below command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Saasscaleup\LogAlarm\LogAlarmServiceProvider"

Usage

The package will automatically start listening to your application's log events. Customize the settings in the config/log-alarm.php file to match your requirements. For Example:

LA_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/url
[email protected]
LA_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SUBJECT="Log Alarm Notification"

In order to trigger the Log Alarm with the current defualt setting, All you need to do is

1. Add your LA_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL and LA_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL
2. Print Error log 5 times in tinker or in your Controller

Telegram Notification Configuration

Add LA_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN and LA_TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID to your .env

Getting a Bot Token:

1. Open Telegram and search for @BotFather
2. Start a chat with BotFather and send /newbot
3. Follow the prompts:

• Provide a name for your bot
• Provide a username for your bot (must end in 'bot'). Example: MyTelegramBot or my_telegram_bot

4. BotFather will give you a bot token that looks like this: 123456789:ABCdefGHIjklMNOpqrsTUVwxyz

Getting the Chat ID:

Method 1 (For Direct Messages):

1. Start a chat with your new bot
2. Send it any message
3. Visit this URL in your browser (replace with your bot token):

https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBotTokenHere>/getUpdates

4. Look for the "chat" -> "id" field in the JSON response. It will be a number like 123456789.

"chat": {
    "id": 123456789,
},

Method 2 (For Groups):

1. Add your bot to the group
2. Send a message in the group
3. Use the same /getUpdates URL method above
4. Look for "chat" -> "id" in the response. For groups, it will be a negative number like -123456789

Important Tips:

Keep your bot token secret - anyone with it can control your bot For groups, make sure to give the bot permission to read messages If you don't see any updates in the /getUpdates response, send a new message to the bot or group The chat ID is permanent for that chat or group unless the bot is removed and re-added

Tinker example:

php artisan tinker

\Log::error('Log alarm');
\Log::error('Log alarm');
\Log::error('Log alarm');
\Log::error('Log alarm');
\Log::error('Log alarm');

After the fifth error log message, email and slack notification will be sent! (Email example)

From: Laravel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Log Alarm Notification


The Error was occurred 5 times in the last 1 minutes:

LOG_LEVEL: error | LOG_MESSAGE: Log alarm

🔧 Configuration

Update your .env file with the following environment variables:

LA_ENABLED=true
LA_LOG_TYPE=error
LA_LOG_TIME_FRAME=1
LA_LOG_PER_TIME_FRAME=5
LA_DELAY_BETWEEN_ALARMS=5
LA_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/url
[email protected]
LA_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SUBJECT="Log Alarm Notification"

Here's the full configuration file content for config/log-alarm.php:

<?php

return [

    // enable or disable LOG ALARM
    'enabled' => env('LA_ENABLED', true),

    // log listener for specific log type
    'log_type' => env('LA_LOG_TYPE', 'error'), // also possible: 'error,warning,debug'

    // log time frame - log time frame to listen - in minutes
    "log_time_frame" => env('LA_LOG_TIME_FRAME', 1),

    // log per time frame - How many log to count per time frame until alarm trigger
    "log_per_time_frame" => env('LA_LOG_PER_TIME_FRAME', 5),

    // delay between alarms in minutes - How many minutes to delay between alarms
    'delay_between_alarms' => env('LA_DELAY_BETWEEN_ALARMS', 5),

    // log listener for specific word inside log messages
    'specific_string' => env('LA_SPECIFIC_STRING', ''), // also possible: 'table lock' or 'foo' or 'bar' or leave empty '' to enable any word

    // notification message for log alarm
    'notification_message' => env('LA_NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE', 'Log Alarm got triggered!'),

    // Slack webhook url for log alarm
    'slack_webhook_url' => env('LA_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL', ''),

    // notification email address for log alarm
    'notification_email' => env('LA_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL', '[email protected],[email protected]'),

    // notification email subject for log alarm
    'notification_email_subject' => env('LA_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'Log Alarm Notification'),
];

Contribution

We welcome contributions! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request or open an Issue on GitHub.

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

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