This package brings back the tail command in Laravel 5. This package works for daily and single logs and has support for tailing local and the remote logs.

Spatie is a webdesign agency in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.

You're free to use this package (it's MIT-licensed), but if it makes it to your production environment you are required to send us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

The best postcards will get published on the open source page on our website.

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-tail

You must install this service provider:

// config/app.php

'providers' => [
    ...
    'Spatie\Tail\TailServiceProvider',
    ...
];

If you're planning on tailing remote logs you must publish the config file with this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Tail\TailServiceProvider"

A file named tail.php will be created in the config directory. The options you can set in the file should be self-explanatory.

return [


    'connections' => [

        /*
         * The environment name. You can use this value in the tail command.
         */
        'production' => [

            /*
             * The hostname of the server where the logs are located
             */
            'host' => '',

            /*
             * The username to be used when connecting to the server where the 
             * logs are located
             */
            'user' => '',

            /*
             * The full path to the directory where the logs are located
             */
            'logDirectory' => '',
        ],
    ],
];

To tail the local log you can use this command:

php artisan tail

By default the last 20 lines will be shown. You can change that number by using the lines-option.

php artisan tail --lines=50

To tail a remote log you must first specify hostname and logDirectory in the config-file. After you've done that you can tail the remote logs by specifify the environment as an argument.

php artisan tail production

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

Spatie is a webdesign agency in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.

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