laravel 5.2 custom log file for different tasks

Question

Can we create a custom log file for different purposes in laravel 5.2 like for order related log entries that should be in order.log and for payment related stuff the entry shou

Answer 1

There is a simple way:

use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;

$log = ['orderId' => 10,
        'description' => 'Some description'];

//first parameter passed to Monolog\Logger sets the logging channel name
$orderLog = new Logger('order');
$orderLog->pushHandler(new StreamHandler(storage_path('logs/order.log')), Logger::INFO);
$orderLog->info('OrderLog', $log);

Output in logs/order.log:

[2017-04-30 00:00:00] order.INFO: OrderLog {"orderId":10, "description":"Some description"} []