Slack Error Notifier (Alternative to Bugsnag/Sentry) (Laravel 5.5)

If you can't use Bugsnag or Sentry for monitoring your production Laravel application, here is a really simple solution to get notified when anything goes wrong.

This is a plug-and-play Laravel package to send a message to a Slack channel via an Incoming WebHook when error/exception occurs in your application.

Note: Logging feature had major updates in Laravel 5.6. you may use Laravel Log Enhancer package for it.

Requirements

• PHP 7.0+
• Laravel 5.5

Installation

1. Install the package by running this command in your terminal/cmd:

composer require freshbitsweb/slack-error-notifier

2. Import config file by running this command in your terminal/cmd:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=slack-error-notifier-config

3. Create an Incoming WebHook in your Slack account and put Webhook URL in your .env file for SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL variable

SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

4. Optinal: Change configuration settings:

• (bool) add_memory_usage => Set to true if you wish to send memory usage in the slack message

• (bool) add_request_headers => Set to true if you wish to send request headers in the slack message

• (bool) add_session_data => Set to true if you wish to send session data in the slack message

• (bool) add_input_data => Set to true if you wish to send input data in the slack message

• (array) ignore_request_fields => If input data is being sent, you can specify the inputs from the user that should not be sent to Slack for example, password,cc number, etc.

• (env) SLACK_LOG_LEVEL => Specify minimum error level (#1) to notify slack.

And it's done. Yeah, that simple. Here's a video demo for a quick look:

Note

This package uses Monolog library and sends a notification message based on the log_level configuration setting. So, if you set it to alert, only alert and emergency level errors will be considered.

Authors

• Gaurav Makhecha - Initial work

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Special Thanks to

• Laravel Community