yared/laravel-activity-tracker

Advanced activity logging for Laravel with IP, browser, location, and model change tracking

1.0.0 2026-03-06 15:43 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• illuminate/database: ^9.0|^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
• illuminate/support: ^9.0|^10.0|^11.0|^12.0

MIT

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Advanced activity logging for Laravel with IP, browser, location, device detection, and automatic model change tracking.

Features

• Rich activity data — IP, browser, device, URL, location
• Automatic model logging — Track created, updated, deleted with LogsActivity trait
• Model change detection — Log what changed (e.g. "Price: 100 → 120")
• Geolocation — City and country from IP (via ip-api.com)
• Activity timeline — Query and display admin activity feed
• Log cleanup — php artisan activity:clean to remove old logs
• Configurable — Custom table name, location API, cleanup days

Installation

composer require yared/laravel-activity-tracker

Publish config and run migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=activity-config
php artisan migrate

Usage

Manual Tracking

use Yared\ActivityTracker\Facades\Activity;

// In a controller
Activity::track(auth()->user(), "created order #2001");

// With extra properties
Activity::track(auth()->user(), "exported report", [
    'format' => 'pdf',
    'rows' => 150,
]);

Automatic Model Logging

Add the trait to any model:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Yared\ActivityTracker\Traits\LogsActivity;

class Order extends Model
{
    use LogsActivity;
}

Now every create, update, and delete is logged automatically. Updates include what changed:

{
  "changes": {
    "status": ["pending", "shipped"],
    "price": [100, 120]
  }
}

Activity Timeline

use Yared\ActivityTracker\Models\ActivityLog;

// Latest activities
$activities = ActivityLog::latest()->take(50)->get();

// For a specific user
$activities = ActivityLog::forUser($userId)->latest()->get();

// Last 7 days
$activities = ActivityLog::recent(7)->get();

Clean Old Logs

# Use config value (default: 90 days)
php artisan activity:clean

# Custom days
php artisan activity:clean --days=30

Example Output

User 5 created order #2001
IP: 192.168.1.1
Browser: Chrome
Device: Linux Desktop
Location: Venice, IT
URL: /orders

Configuration

Edit config/activity.php:

Key	Description
table	Database table name
location_enabled	Fetch location from IP
location_api_url	IP geolocation API
cleanup_days	Default days for activity:clean (0 = disabled)
track_requests	Log every request when using middleware

Middleware (Optional)

To log every API request, register the middleware:

// app/Http/Kernel.php
protected $middlewareAliases = [
    'activity.track' => \Yared\ActivityTracker\Middleware\TrackRequest::class,
];

Then enable in config: 'track_requests' => true and apply to routes.

License

MIT