Laravel 5.5 – How to log all Eloquent Queries

In this post, I will show you simple method to log each and every Eloquent Query of your application executes. We gonna log queries to the storage/logs/laravel.log file.

To log database queries we gonna add a database calls lister as shown in the below example. Open your app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php and add following code to boot() method:

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

use DB;

use Log;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider

{

    public function boot()

    {

        Schema::defaultStringLength(191);

        DB::listen(function($query) {

            Log::info(

                $query->sql,

                $query->bindings,

                $query->time

            );

        });

    }

Example log data

[2017-12-04 18:57:33] local.INFO: select * from `tasks`  

[2017-12-04 18:57:33] local.INFO: select count(*) as aggregate from `tasks`  

[2017-12-04 18:57:33] local.INFO: select * from `tasks` limit 15 offset 0  

[2017-12-04 18:57:33] local.INFO: select * from `tasks`  

[2017-12-04 18:57:33] local.INFO: select count(*) as aggregate from `tasks`  

[2017-12-04 18:57:33] local.INFO: select * from `tasks` limit 15 offset 0  

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