global.php

<?php

// app/start/global.php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Error Logger
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here we will configure the error logger setup for the application which
| is built on top of the wonderful Monolog library. By default we will
| build a rotating log file setup which creates a new file each day.
|
*/

//$logFile = 'log-'.php_sapi_name().'.txt';
//Log::useDailyFiles(storage_path().'/logs/'.$logFile);

// Log to the database asynchronously
Log::listen(function($level, $message, $context) {

	// Save the php sapi and date, because the closure needs to be serialized
	$apiName = php_sapi_name();
	$date = new DateTime;

	Queue::push(function() use ($level, $message, $context, $apiName, $date) {
		DB::insert("INSERT INTO logs (php_sapi_name, level, message, context, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)", array(
			$apiName,
			$level,
			$message,
			json_encode($context),
			$date
		));
	});

});

migration.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class AppMigrationCreateLogTable extends Migration {

  /**
	 * Run the migrations.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function up()
	{
		Schema::create('logs', function($t)
		{
			$t->increments('id');
			$t->string('php_sapi_name');
			$t->string('level');
			$t->text('message');
			$t->text('context');
			$t->timestamp('created_at');
		});
	}

	/**
	 * Reverse the migrations.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function down()
	{
		Schema::drop('logs');
	}

}