In a new post to his site Freek Van der Herten shares information about a logging package they've developed for Laravel-based applications to make activity logging simpler throughout the app: laravel-activitylog.

n your apps there’s probably a lot going on. Users log in and out, they create, update and delete content, mails get sent and so on. For an administrator of an app these events provide useful insights. In almost every project we make at Spatie we log these events and show them in the admin-section of our site. [...] We made a new package called laravel-activitylog that makes logging activities in a Laravel app a cinch. In this blogpost I’d like to walk you through it.

He then goes through the basics of using the library, complete with code examples:

• simple activity logging with messaging
• providing the "acted on" object information
• logging the information about who the actor was

There's also a section with details on automatic model logging, making it easier to see the changes on you data without having to log each one individually. He also shows you how to use multiple logs, providing a method to narrow down log records by type.