Laravel 5 Send Errors to Email

Question

I am trying to figure out how I can send errors to my email in Laravel 5. I haven't had much luck finding any good resources.

There used to be good packages like: https://github.com/TheMonkeys/laravel-error-emailer That did this for you in Laravel 4.

They have yet to release a Laravel5 update because of the way they changed error handling... which I am also not to familiar with.

I have a few Laravel 5 applications which I need to monitor but I need a more efficient way of doing it besides checking error logs on storage.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know there are others out there seeking this information as well.

Answer 1

You can do this by catching all the errors in the App\Exceptions\Handler::report(). So in you App/Exceptions/Handler.php add a report function if its not already there.

/**
 * Report or log an exception.
 *
 * This is a great spot to send exceptions to Sentry, Bugsnag, etc.
 *
 * @param  \Exception  $e
 * @return void
 */
public function report(\Exception $e)
{
    if ($e instanceof \Exception) {
        // emails.exception is the template of your email
        // it will have access to the $error that we are passing below
        Mail::send('emails.exception', ['error' => $e->getMessage()], function ($m) {
            $m->to('your email', 'your name')->subject('your email subject');
        });
    }

    return parent::report($e);
}

If you need more info, refer to laravel documentation form mailer and errors.