Prevent normal events from logging into the laravel.og

[zokistale]

In the most recent version 10, not sure which exactly, the package now started to write down all events, like:

[backup] Starting backup...
[backup] Dumping database...
[backup] Determining files to backup...
...
[backup] Backup completed!

Is there a way to turn writing normal events off, but still log errors, if they happen?

[salvador-castro]

This is expected behavior in v10 — the old ConsoleOutput singleton got replaced by a backupLogger() helper that routes progress messages through Laravel's logger instead of just printing them, which is why they now show up in laravel.log.

There's a log_channel option in config/backup.php for this. It's a blunt switch on its own (default channel / custom channel / false to disable entirely), but if you point it at a custom channel with its minimum level set to error, the routine info-level progress messages get filtered out while actual failures still get logged:

// config/logging.php

'backup' => [
    'driver' => 'single',
    'path' => storage_path('logs/backup.log'),
    'level' => 'error',
],

// config/backup.php
'log_channel' => 'backup',