Laravel Activity Log Discord

A powerful Laravel package that logs user activities and system events, then sends beautiful notifications to Discord channels via webhooks. Perfect for monitoring your application's important events in real-time.

🌟 Features

• 📝 Comprehensive Activity Logging - Track user actions, model changes, and custom events
• 🎯 Discord Integration - Send rich embed notifications to Discord channels
• 🚀 Queue Support - Asynchronous processing for better performance
• 🎨 Customizable Embeds - Configurable colors, icons, and formatting
• 🔧 Easy Configuration - Environment-based settings with sensible defaults
• 📊 Database Storage - Store activity logs with full relationship tracking
• 🏷️ Auto-Model Tracking - Simple trait-based automatic logging
• 🔍 Event Filtering - Enable/disable specific event types
• ⚡ Performance Optimized - Efficient database queries and caching
• 🧪 Test Webhook - Built-in webhook testing functionality
• 🚀 Bootup Messages - Optional application startup notifications
• 🛡️ Error Handling - Robust error handling and logging
• 🔒 Security - Automatic sensitive data masking

📋 Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 10.0 or higher
• GuzzleHTTP 7.0 or higher

🚀 Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require teaminfinitydev/laravel-activity-log-discord

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="teaminfinitydev\ActivityLogDiscord\ActivityLogDiscordServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Publish and run the migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="teaminfinitydev\ActivityLogDiscord\ActivityLogDiscordServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"
php artisan migrate

⚙️ Configuration

Discord Webhook Setup

1. Go to your Discord server settings
2. Navigate to Integrations → Webhooks
3. Create a new webhook for your desired channel
4. Copy the webhook URL

Environment Configuration

Add the following to your .env file:

# Discord Configuration
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=https://discord.com/api/webhooks/your-webhook-url-here
DISCORD_BOT_NAME="App Activity Logger"
DISCORD_AVATAR_URL=https://your-app.com/logo.png

# Package Configuration
ACTIVITY_LOG_DISCORD_ENABLED=true
ACTIVITY_LOG_QUEUE=true
ACTIVITY_LOG_QUEUE_CONNECTION=default
ACTIVITY_LOG_QUEUE_NAME=discord-notifications
ACTIVITY_LOG_LEVEL=info

# Bootup Messages (Optional)
ACTIVITY_LOG_SEND_BOOTUP=false

SSL Configuration

By default, this package uses SSL verification when connecting to Discord webhooks. This is recommended for production environments.

For Production Environments (Default):

The package uses the following Guzzle configuration by default, which includes SSL verification:

$this->client = new Client([
    'timeout' => 30,
    'connect_timeout' => 10,
    'verify' => true, // SSL verification enabled
]);

For Local Development or Troubleshooting:

If you're having connection issues in a local development environment or behind certain corporate firewalls, you may need to disable SSL verification temporarily:

1. Open src/Services/DiscordWebhookService.php
2. Find the client initialization in the constructor
3. Change the verify option to false:

$this->client = new Client([
    'timeout' => 30,
    'connect_timeout' => 10,
    'verify' => false, // SSL verification disabled
]);

⚠️ IMPORTANT SECURITY WARNING: Only disable SSL verification in local development environments. Never disable SSL verification in production as it makes your application vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Test Your Integration

After configuration, test your webhook integration:

# Basic test
php artisan activity-log:test-webhook

# Detailed test with configuration info
php artisan activity-log:test-webhook --detailed

📖 Usage

Basic Usage

Manual Logging

use teaminfinitydev\ActivityLogDiscord\Facades\ActivityLogger;

// Simple event logging
ActivityLogger::log('user.action', 'User performed a custom action');

// Detailed logging with subject and causer
ActivityLogger::log(
    'order.completed',
    'Order #1234 has been completed',
    $order,        // Subject (the order)
    $user,         // Causer (who performed the action)
    ['total' => 99.99, 'items' => 3] // Additional properties
);

Built-in Helper Methods

// User activity logging
ActivityLogger::logUserLogin($user);
ActivityLogger::logUserLogout($user);

// Model activity logging
ActivityLogger::logModelCreated($post, $user);
ActivityLogger::logModelUpdated($post, $changes, $user);
ActivityLogger::logModelDeleted($post, $user);

// System events
ActivityLogger::logWebAppBootup();

// Test webhook
$success = ActivityLogger::testWebhook();

Automatic Model Tracking

Add the LogsActivity trait to your models for automatic tracking:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use teaminfinitydev\ActivityLogDiscord\Traits\LogsActivity;

class Post extends Model
{
    use LogsActivity;
    
    // Specify which events to log
    protected $logActivity = ['created', 'updated', 'deleted', 'restored'];
    
    // Optional: Customize the display name
    public function getDisplayName(): string
    {
        return $this->title;
    }
    
    // Optional: Custom logging conditions
    public function shouldLogActivity(string $event): bool
    {
        // Don't log updates if only timestamps changed
        if ($event === 'updated') {
            return count($this->getDirty()) > 2; // more than created_at and updated_at
        }
        
        return true;
    }
    
    // Optional: Additional properties for activity log
    public function getActivityLogProperties(string $event): array
    {
        return [
            'category' => $this->category,
            'status' => $this->status,
        ];
    }
}

User Authentication Logging

Track user login/logout events automatically:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use teaminfinitydev\ActivityLogDiscord\Facades\ActivityLogger;

class LoginController extends Controller
{
    protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
    {
        ActivityLogger::logUserLogin($user);
    }
    
    public function logout(Request $request)
    {
        if (auth()->check()) {
            ActivityLogger::logUserLogout(auth()->user());
        }
        
        $this->guard()->logout();
        $request->session()->invalidate();
        
        return redirect('/');
    }
}

Application Bootup Monitoring

Enable bootup messages to monitor when your application starts:

ACTIVITY_LOG_SEND_BOOTUP=true

This will send a message to Discord whenever your web application boots up, useful for monitoring deployments and server restarts.

🧪 Troubleshooting

Connection Issues

If you're experiencing issues connecting to Discord webhooks, try the following solutions:

1. Check Your Webhook URL

Ensure your Discord webhook URL is correctly formatted and valid. It should look like:

https://discord.com/api/webhooks/[webhook_id]/[webhook_token]

2. SSL Certificate Issues

If you receive a "No response from Discord (connection error)" error, you might be having SSL certificate issues, especially in a local development environment.

Temporary Fix (Development Only):

Modify the DiscordWebhookService.php file to disable SSL verification:

public function __construct(?string $webhookUrl, string $botName = 'Activity Logger', ?string $avatarUrl = null)
{
    $this->client = new Client([
        'timeout' => 30,
        'connect_timeout' => 10,
        'verify' => false, // Disable SSL verification for testing
    ]);
    // Rest of the constructor...
}

⚠️ WARNING: Re-enable SSL verification (verify => true) before deploying to production!

3. Firewall or Network Issues

• Ensure your server/local environment can access external services
• Check if your firewall allows outgoing connections to Discord (ports 443/80)
• Try testing with a different internet connection

4. Detailed Debug Logging

Enable detailed logging to see what's happening with the connection:

try {
    // In your DiscordWebhookService.php
    Log::debug('Attempting to connect to Discord webhook', [
        'webhook_url' => $this->maskWebhookUrl($this->webhookUrl),
    ]);
    
    $response = $this->client->post($this->webhookUrl, [
        // your existing options
        'debug' => true, // Add this to see detailed request/response info
    ]);
} catch (RequestException $e) {
    Log::error('Discord webhook error details', [
        'request_exception_details' => method_exists($e, 'getHandlerContext') ? $e->getHandlerContext() : 'Not available',
    ]);
}

Then check your Laravel logs for more information.

🎨 Discord Message Examples

The package sends rich embed messages to Discord that look like this:

User Login Event

🔐 User Login
User [email protected] logged in

Performed by: John Doe ([email protected])
Details:
IP: 192.168.1.100
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0...
Timestamp: 2024-01-15 14:30:22

Application Bootup Event

🚀 System Bootup
Web application started successfully

Details:
Environment: production
PHP Version: 8.2.0
Laravel Version: 10.0.0
Memory Usage: 32.5 MB
Server Time: 2024-01-15 14:30:22

Model Created Event

➕ Model Created
Post 'My First Blog Post' was created

Performed by: Jane Doe ([email protected])
Subject: My First Blog Post
Details:
Title: My First Blog Post
Category: Technology
Status: Published

📊 Database Schema

The package creates an activity_logs table with the following structure:

Column	Type	Description
id	bigint	Primary key
event_type	string	Type of event (e.g., 'user.login')
description	text	Human-readable description
subject_type	string	Model class of the subject
subject_id	bigint	ID of the subject model
causer_type	string	Model class of the causer
causer_id	bigint	ID of the causer model
properties	json	Additional event data
discord_sent	boolean	Whether sent to Discord
discord_sent_at	timestamp	When sent to Discord
created_at	timestamp	When the log was created
updated_at	timestamp	When the log was updated

🔧 Customization

Custom Event Colors and Icons

Modify config/activity-log-discord.php to customize event appearance:

'events' => [
    'user.login' => [
        'enabled' => true,
        'color' => 0x00ff00, // Green
        'icon' => '🔐',
    ],
    'order.failed' => [
        'enabled' => true,
        'color' => 0xff0000, // Red
        'icon' => '❌',
    ],
],

Queue Configuration

For high-traffic applications, enable queue processing:

// config/activity-log-discord.php
'queue_notifications' => true,
'queue_connection' => 'redis', // or your preferred connection
'queue_name' => 'discord-notifications',

Don't forget to run your queue workers:

php artisan queue:work

📄 License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.