Customize Laravel error reporting to remove stack trace

Question

How can you turn off or remove the stack traces from Laravel's error reports. They're annoying if you want to read them in your console. I know you can add a custom handler in app/Exceptions/Handler.php, but I have no idea how to do that.

Answer 1

Setting APP_DEBUG=false in your .env file works fine for the frontend.

If you don't want the stack trace lines to be outputted in the log files only, try this.

In /app/Exceptions/Handler.php add use Log; at the top, then add this in the report function:

Log::error('['.$e->getCode().'] "'.$e->getMessage().'" on line '.$e->getTrace()[0]['line'].' of file '.$e->getTrace()[0]['file']);

And remove:

parent::report($e);

More info: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/remove-stacktrace-from-log-files