Keep a trace of the username with Monolog in a Silex app

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I have a Silex application within I have set up a Monolog logger service. In debug mode, the logs are like (INFO level):

[2018-02-21 09:08:26] appName.INFO: > GET /customers [] []
[2018-02-21 09:08:27] appName.INFO: < 200 [] []

I would like to keep a trace of the user who generate those requests, by writing the username in the log, next to the date for instance.

Is there a way to customize the Monolog template to achieve that ?

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2 Answers

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Simply do this when user consumes the request:

use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;

// create a log channel
$logger = new Logger('name');
$logger->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('path/to/your.log', Logger::WARNING));

//Add following lines
$username = 'foobar'; //Ofcourse your user's username
$logger->info($username);

What else do you expecting?

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You are after a log processor & formatter. With a custom log processor add the username to the log record, then with the formatter, include that value in the log string row.

Or you can simply add the username to the log's context if you will:

$logger->log('User logged in', ['username' => $username]);