Laravel Compact Logs

Truncate verbose stack traces in Laravel log files. Instead of 100+ line stack traces per error, get the error message and the first few relevant frames.

Before:

[2026-02-12 08:37:31] local.ERROR: Connection refused {"exception":"[object] (PDOException...)
[stacktrace]
#0 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(420): PDO->prepare(...)
#1 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(827): ...
#2 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(794): ...
#3 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(411): ...
... 80 more lines of framework internals ...

After:

[2026-02-12 08:37:31] local.ERROR: Connection refused {"exception":"[object] (PDOException...)
[stacktrace]
#0 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(420): PDO->prepare(...)
#1 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(827): ...
#2 /vendor/laravel/framework/src/.../Connection.php(794): ...
... and 80 more frames"}

Installation

composer require leek/laravel-compact-logs

That's it. The package auto-registers and applies to single and daily log channels by default.

Configuration

Publish the config file to customize:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=compact-logs-config

// config/compact-logs.php
return [
    // Channels to apply truncation to (set to null to disable auto-registration)
    'channels' => ['single', 'daily'],

    // Max stack trace frames per exception
    'max_trace_depth' => (int) env('LOG_TRACE_DEPTH', 3),
];

Environment Variable

LOG_TRACE_DEPTH=5

Manual Setup

If you prefer manual control, set channels to null in the config and add the tap directly to your config/logging.php:

'single' => [
    'driver' => 'single',
    'tap'    => [\Leek\CompactLogs\CompactExceptionTap::class],
    'path'   => storage_path('logs/laravel.log'),
    'level'  => env('LOG_LEVEL', 'debug'),
],

How It Works

The package provides a custom Monolog LineFormatter that overrides normalizeException() to truncate stack traces. A logging tap applies this formatter to your configured channels.

• Stack traces are trimmed to max_trace_depth frames (default: 3)
• A ... and N more frames indicator shows how many were omitted
• Previous exception chains are also truncated
• All other log formatting remains unchanged

License

MIT