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Day 3: Sending AI Debugging Suggestions via Email and Slack Notifications

In Day 2, we captured Laravel error logs and processed them using an AI-powered Laravel debugger. Today, we’ll send AI suggestions via email and Slack for faster visibility and real-time collaboration.

Step 1: Configure Laravel Mail

Open .env and add your mail driver settings (use Mailtrap for testing):

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=your_mailtrap_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_mailtrap_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
[email protected]
MAIL_FROM_NAME="AI Laravel Debugger"

Test it with:

php artisan config:clear
php artisan config:cache

Step 2: Create a Mail Notification Class

Run:

php artisan make:mail AIDebuggerSuggestionMail

Open app/Mail/AIDebuggerSuggestionMail.php and update:

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class AIDebuggerSuggestionMail extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    public $errorMessage;
    public $suggestion;

    public function __construct($errorMessage, $suggestion)
    {
        $this->errorMessage = $errorMessage;
        $this->suggestion = $suggestion;
    }

    public function build()
    {
        return $this->subject('AI Debugger Suggestion')
            ->view('emails.ai_suggestion');
    }
}

Create the email view:

mkdir -p resources/views/emails
touch resources/views/emails/ai_suggestion.blade.php

And add:

<h2>AI-Powered Laravel Debugger Suggestion</h2>

<p><strong>Error:</strong> {{ $errorMessage }}</p>
<p><strong>AI Suggestion:</strong> {{ $suggestion }}</p>

Step 3: Send Email from Listener

Modify your LogErrorListener.php:

use App\Mail\AIDebuggerSuggestionMail;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

public function handle(MessageLogged $event)
{
    if ($event->level === 'error') {
        $suggestion = $this->aiDebugger->analyzeError($event->message);

        // Log to file
        \Log::channel('ai_debugger')->error('AI Suggestion: ' . $suggestion);

        // Send email
        Mail::to('[email protected]')->send(
            new AIDebuggerSuggestionMail($event->message, $suggestion)
        );
    }
}

Step 4: Configure Slack Notifications (Optional)

Install Slack notification channel:

composer require laravel/slack-notification-channel

In .env, add:

LOG_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/url

Then, in config/logging.php, add a new channel:

'slack_ai' => [
    'driver' => 'slack',
    'url' => env('LOG_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL'),
    'username' => 'Laravel AI Debugger',
    'emoji' => ':robot_face:',
    'level' => 'error',
],

Update the LogErrorListener.php to also send to Slack:

\Log::channel('slack_ai')->error("AI Debugger Suggestion\nError: {$event->message}\nSuggestion: $suggestion");

Step 5: Test Everything

Visit:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/test-error

You should now receive:

An email with the error and suggestion.
A Slack message if configured.

Next Steps

In Day 4, we’ll build a dashboard to view AI error suggestions historically inside Laravel.

No more digging through logs—let AI and notifications bring debugging to you.

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