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Laravel Pail - The easiest way to tail your log files

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Laravel Pail is a package that allows you to easily dive in and tail your application's log files. Pail is designed to work with any log driver, be super easy to remember, and provide a set of useful filters to help you quickly find what you're looking for.

Installing Laravel Pail

Installation is as easy as requiring the package from Composer:

composer require laravel/pail

Then start it to begin tailing your logs:

php artisan pail

Laravel Pail has some flags that allow you to filter log messages in useful ways:

Filter logs by exception type

php artisan pail --filter="QueryException"

Filter by message

php artisan pail --message="User created"

Filter by Log level

php artisan pail --level=error

You can use any of the levels: emergency, alert, critical, error, warning, notice, info, and debug.

Filter by User ID

php artisan pail --user=1

The source code is available on GitHub at laravel/pail, and you can view the full documentation on the Laravel site.

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