Installing Logtail PHP client

Logtail allows you to collect logs directly from PHP projects, including Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Zend, and others. Supported versions are:

• PHP 8 or newer
• Composer 1.10.1 or newer

Installing Logtail PHP client

Install the Logtail PHP client library using Composer:

composer require logtail/monolog-logtail

Adding Logtail to existing PHP project

Already have a PHP project you want to add logtail to? To add Logtail client library to existing project, run the following command:

composer require logtail/monolog-logtail

You can find more about basic composer usage in the official guide .

How it works in action

Here is an example of how to send logs from your PHP application to Logtail.

For a more detailed example, please see the PHP + Logtail example project on GitHub .

<?php

require "vendor/autoload.php";

use Monolog/Logger;
use Logtail/Monolog/LogtailHandler;

$logger = new Logger("example-app");
$logger->pushHandler(new LogtailHandler("<source-token>"));

$logger->info("logtail integration is ready");
$logger->warn("log structured data", [
    "item" => [
        "url" => "https://fictional-store.com/item-123",
        "price" => 100
    ]
]);

{
    "dt": "2021-03-29T11:24:54.788Z",
    "level": "info",
    "message": "logtail integration is ready",
    "monolog": {
        "channel": "example-app"
    }
}

{
    "dt": "2021-03-29T11:24:54.788Z",
    "level": "warn",
    "message": "log structured data",
    "monolog": {
        "channel": "example-app",
        "context": {
            "item": {
                "url": "https://fictional-store.com/item-123",
                "price": 100
            }
        }
    }
}