Laravel HTTP Client Logger

Paul Redmond Published June 3, 2021 Updated November 14, 2023

HTTP Client Logger is a logger for the built-in Laravel HTTP client. It makes logging the request and response simple by sending it to a configured Laravel logger.

In its simplest form, this Logger package will output the following example log:

Http::log()->get('https://repo.packagist.org/p2/bilfeldt/laravel-http-client-logger.json');
 
//[2021-03-08 06:58:49] local.DEBUG: Time 0.12105202674866sec
//Request
//GET /p2/bilfeldt/laravel-http-client-logger.json HTTP/1.1
//User-Agent: GuzzleHttp/7
//Host: repo.packagist.org
//
//
//Response
//HTTP/1.1 200 OK
//Server: nginx
//Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 06:58:49 GMT
//Content-Type: application/json
//Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:31:03 GMT
//Transfer-Encoding: chunked
//Connection: keep-alive
//Vary: Accept-Encoding
//
//{"packages":{"bilfeldt/laravel-http-client-logger":[...]}}

You can also conditionally log HTTP requests based on a given “truthy” condition using the logWhen() and even supply logging context to both log() and logWhen():

// Log some context along with the HTTP request log
Http::log(['note' => 'Something to log'])->get('https://example.com');
 
// Log (with context) when $condition === true
Http::logWhen($condition, ['note' => 'Something to log'])
    ->get('https://example.com');