farhanchoksi / laravel-pretty-logger

v1.0.1 2026-10-20 10:51 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• illuminate/support: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0|^13.0
• monolog/monolog: ^3.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/framework: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0|^13.0

MIT

• Farhanchoksi

• logging
• debug
• http
• logger
• middleware
• laravel
• dio

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-20 10:51 UTC

README

A pretty_dio_logger-style HTTP request/response logger for Laravel. Every request prints a clean, colored, boxed summary to your terminal (and/or a readable log file) — with passwords, OTPs, tokens and cookies automatically masked.

• Package: farhanchoksi/laravel-pretty-logger
• Namespace: Farhanchoksi\PrettyLogger
• Config file: config/pretty-logger.php

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────
│ REQUEST  POST  http://localhost:8000/login
├───────────────────────────────────────────────
│ body: {"phone":"9876543210","password":"******"}
│ headers: content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
└───────────────────────────────────────────────
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────
│ RESPONSE  200  POST  http://localhost:8000/login
├───────────────────────────────────────────────
│ duration: 22ms
│ headers: content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
│ set-cookie: <redacted>
│ body: <html document, 5,855 bytes — body hidden>
└───────────────────────────────────────────────

Install

composer require farhanchoksi/laravel-pretty-logger

The service provider is auto-discovered — no registration needed. The logger activates automatically when APP_DEBUG=true.

Optional: publish the config

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=pretty-logger-config

This creates config/pretty-logger.php so you can customize everything.

Configuration (.env)

Key	Default	Meaning
PRETTY_LOGGER	(null = follow APP_DEBUG)	Force the logger true/false regardless of debug mode.
PRETTY_LOGGER_TERMINAL	true	Stream colored boxes to php://stderr (terminal).
PRETTY_LOGGER_FILE	true	Also append to storage/logs/http.log.
PRETTY_LOGGER_HTML_BODY	false	Print HTML response bodies (truncated). Off = just byte size.
PRETTY_LOGGER_MAX_BODY	600	Max characters of a JSON/text body to print.

Tip: to keep logging on in production without turning APP_DEBUG on, set APP_DEBUG=false and PRETTY_LOGGER=true.

Security

The logger masks sensitive data by default (configurable in config/pretty-logger.php):

• Body/query keys → password, password_confirmation, token, secret, otp, api_key, access_token, refresh_token → ******
• Headers → cookie, set-cookie, authorization, x-csrf-token, x-xsrf-token → <redacted>
• URLs → any masked key appearing as a query param is redacted too
• HTML/binary response bodies are summarized, not dumped

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 10, 11, 12 or 13

License

MIT