best way to log every request/response - laravel

Question

I have a POST API to create a register on the database. My goal is to be able to log every 4XX request (with the response) for another team to view that list/search the data, with the option to download the request JSON sent in that call.
What's the best way to archive that? Its just to create a logs table in the database?

Answer 1

You might want to leverage the ResponseReceived event. We can create a LogResponseReceived listener:
use Illuminate\Http\Client\Events;
class LogResponseReceived
{
public function handle(ResponseReceived $event)
{
if ($event->request->method() == 'POST' && $event->request->url() == $yourUrl && $response->status() == $yourStatusCode) {
// Log the data.
}
}
}
In addition, you can use laravel/telescope, But that is going to log every request.

Answer 2

Telescope may not be a very logical choice for use in a production environment. You can find an answer to your problem with a simple middleware. If it is an endpoint that receives a lot of requests, logging to the database will not be performant enough. You can write to a different log file instead.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
class RequestLogger
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$response = $next($request);
//here you can check the request to be logged
$log = [
'URI' => $request->getUri(),
'METHOD' => $request->getMethod(),
'REQUEST_BODY' => $request->all(),
'RESPONSE' => $response->getContent()
];
return $response;
}
}

Answer 3

hi for this not really need to create a new table. you can use laravel logging. it's up to you to create daily logs or a single log file.
here are some examples depending on the type of log you want to save
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
Log::warning('User is accessing something', ['user' => Auth::user()]);
Log::info('User is accessing ', ['user' => Auth::user()]);
Log::emergency($message);
Log::alert($message);
Log::critical($message);
Log::error($message);
Log::notice($message);
Log::debug($message);
example
public function index(Request $request)
{
$todos = Todo::all();
Log::warning('User is accessing ', ['user' => Auth::user()]);
return view('dashboard')->with(['todos' => $todos]);
}