laravel_laravel_v5_5.md

Laravel/Laravel v5.5

bootstrap/app.php

Edit bootstrap/app.php and add the following lines to the file just above return $app at the end of the file.

// Configure Monolog being able to log to Stackdriver
use CodeInternetApplications\MonologStackdriver\StackdriverHandler;
$app->configureMonologUsing(function ($monolog) {
    // set vars
    $logName = 'my-project-log';
    $loggingClientOptions = [
        'keyFilePath' => '/path/to/service-account-key-file.json'
    ];

    // init
    $stackdriverHandler = new StackdriverHandler($logName, $loggingClientOptions);
    $monolog->pushHandler($stackdriverHandler);

    return $monolog;
});

return $app;

.env

Finally, edit .env to add a new/update entry APP_LOG with the value stackdriver.

APP_LOG=stackdriver