Trackable Jobs for Laravel

 Trackable Jobs for Laravel is a package by Mateus Junges that allows you to track Laravel jobs in your database easily.

It works by adding the Trackable trait to a queue job class and stores things like job name, type, status, output, job start, and job finish timestamps. Here's an example of what it looks like

 1<?php
 2 
 3namespace App\Jobs;
 4 
 5use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
 6use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
 7use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
 8use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
 9use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
10use Junges\TrackableJobs\Traits\Trackable;
11 
12class ProcessPodcastJob implements ShouldQueue
13{
14    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels, Trackable;
15 
16    public function handle()
17    {
18        //
19    }
20}

Lastly, this package enables you to track chained jobs as well. Check the readme for further details on working with chained jobs. You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.

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Keep Logs Tidy With the Log Cleaner Package for Laravel

 Laravel Log Cleaner is a package by Joost van Veen for keeping your log files small and tidy. While there are various ways to keep log file size tidy in production, this package uses the built-in Artisan console that you can run manually, via cron directly, or through the scheduler:

1$schedule
2    ->command('logcleaner:run', [
3        '--keeplines' => 5000,
4        '--keepfiles' => 14
5    ])
6    ->daily()
7    ->at('01:00');

Log cleaner provides configurations you can set in your environment or override in the command. The main configuration features and console options include:

• Specify the number of files to keep
• Specify the number of lines to keep
• Exclude pattern to exclude file patterns from processing
• Log file trimming (enabled by default, configurable)
• Configurable file deletion enabled/disabled

Here are some console command examples from the readme that give you a nice visualization of how to use this console command:

 1# Get info about the command and options
 2php artisan logcleaner:run --help
 3 
 4# Trim big log files and delete old log files
 5php artisan logcleaner:run
 6 
 7# Pass the number of lines to keep when trimming log files. Overrides the config setting.
 8# This overrides the default set in config
 9php artisan logcleaner:run --keeplines=10000
10 
11# Pass the number of files to keep when deleting old log files. Overrides the config setting.
12# This overrides the default set in config
13php artisan logcleaner:run --keepfiles=7
14 
15# Run without actually cleaning any logs
16php artisan logcleaner:run --dry-run

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.

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