Sending Laravel Logs to Mattermost Channels

Mattermost is an open-source platform for communication and collaboration with integrations with many tools. It is mostly considered as an open-source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Although Laravel does not have an official log channel driver for Mattermost, we can build a custom Monolog handler that can be easily configured in Laravel apps.

I have created a small package for this purpose that, unlike the existing Mattermost handlers, format the message according to Mattermost docs

Installation

$ composer require muhamadhhassan/laramost

Configuration

In your config/logging.php file, add the mattermost channel to the channels array:

use LaraMost\Formatter\MattermostFormatter;
use LaraMost\Handler\MattermostWebhookHandler;

'channels' => [
    'mattermost' => [
        'driver'  => 'monolog',
        'handler' => MattermostWebhookHandler::class,
        'formatter' => MattermostFormatter::class,
        'with' => [
            'hook' => 'https://your-mattermost.com/hooks/random-string',
        ],
        'level' => 'error'
    ],
],

You can follow the steps here to create an incoming webhook for your channel.

Levels

Monolog levels are used to set the message color and icon

Usage

Simply, using Laravel Log facade

Log::channel('mattermost')->error('Something went wrong', ['user_id' => 5]);

Will send the following message to your mattermost channel:

⚠ Warning: When you log to the mattermost channel make sure that the level is greater than or equals the one defined in config/logging.php

And there you have it! A simple implementation to send log records to a Mattermost channel.