Wide Load for Laravel

Wide event logging for Laravel — one log line for an entire request, packed with everything that happened.

Instead of scattering dozens of log lines throughout your request lifecycle, Wide Load collects key-value data as your application runs and emits a single, rich log entry when the request, artisan command, or job completes. This is the "wide event" or "canonical log line" pattern. For more details on the benefits of this approach, see loggingsucks.com.

Installation

composer require cosmastech/laravel-wide-load

The package auto-discovers its service provider — no manual registration needed.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=wide-load-config

This creates config/wide-load.php with the following options:

Option	Env Var	Default	Description
auto_report	WIDE_LOAD_AUTO_REPORT	true	Toggle for automatic reporting. When false, lifecycle event-driven reporting is skipped. Manual calls to report() still work.
log_level	WIDE_LOAD_LOG_LEVEL	info	Log level used by the default reporter.
log_message	WIDE_LOAD_LOG_MESSAGE	Request completed.	Log message used by the default reporter.
serializable	WIDE_LOAD_SERIALIZABLE	true	Carry wide load data across queued jobs via Laravel's Context serialization.

Enabling auto-reporting

By default, auto-reporting is disabled. You can enable it globally via the config, or toggle it at runtime on a per-request/job basis:

use Cosmastech\WideLoad\Facades\WideLoad;

// Enable auto-reporting for this lifecycle (request, job, or command)
WideLoad::enableAutoReporting();

// Disable it
WideLoad::enableAutoReporting(false);

// Check if enabled
WideLoad::isAutoReportingEnabled();

Since WideLoad is a scoped singleton, the auto-reporting flag resets between requests and queue jobs. This makes it safe to enable reporting in specific services without affecting other jobs processed by the same worker.

Usage

Via the Facade

The quickest way to add data from anywhere in your app:

use Cosmastech\WideLoad\Facades\WideLoad;

// Add data
WideLoad::add('user_id', $user->id);
WideLoad::add(['plan' => 'pro', 'locale' => 'en']);

// Add only if the key doesn't exist yet
WideLoad::addIf('request_id', Str::uuid());

// Increment a counter
WideLoad::increment('db_queries');
WideLoad::decrement('remaining_credits');

Automatic reporting

Wide Load automatically calls report() and flush() on:

• Terminating (end of HTTP request)
• CommandFinished (end of Artisan command)
• JobProcessed (successful queue job)
• JobFailed (failed queue job)

No manual reporting is needed in most cases if you have auto_report enabled.

Middleware

For more control over HTTP request reporting, you can register the terminable middleware:

// bootstrap/app.php
use Cosmastech\WideLoad\Http\Middleware\WideLoadMiddleware;

->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    $middleware->append(WideLoadMiddleware::class);
})

When the middleware is registered, it will report and flush during the terminate phase. The Terminating event listener will automatically skip reporting if the middleware has already handled it, so there is no double-reporting.

Custom reporter

By default, Wide Load writes to the Laravel log. To send data somewhere else (a metrics service, a dedicated wide event store, etc.), register a custom callback in your AppServiceProvider:

use Cosmastech\WideLoad\Facades\WideLoad;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;

public function boot(): void
{
    WideLoad::reportUsing(static function (array $data): void {
        if (empty($data)) {
            return;
        }

        Log::info("[Shutdown] Request details", $data);
    });
}

Events

Wide Load dispatches events during the report() call that you can listen to:

Event	Description
WideLoadReporting	Dispatched when report() is called with data. The event contains the array $data being reported.
NoWideLoadToReport	Dispatched when report() is called but there is no data to report.

use Cosmastech\WideLoad\Events\WideLoadReporting;
use Cosmastech\WideLoad\Events\NoWideLoadToReport;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;

Event::listen(WideLoadReporting::class, function (WideLoadReporting $event) {
    // $event->data contains the reported key-value pairs
});

Event::listen(NoWideLoadToReport::class, function () {
    // No wide load data was collected during this lifecycle
});

License

MIT