How to record login and logout user actions in Laravel

If you need to audit sign in and sign out events for some security concerns, then you can utilize Laravel auth events, which allow you to easily listen for them.

// Within some applications (especially sensitive ones), it can be useful 
// to record login requests for auditing purposes. While you can attempt to dothis manually,
// a much better approach is to listen for the login and logout events,
// then run any required code within the listener's handle method:

class EventServiceProvider 
{
  protected $listen = [
    'Illuminate\Auth\Events\Login' => ['App\Listeners\LoginListener'],
    'Illuminate\Auth\Events\Logout' => ['App\Listeners\LogoutListener'],
  ];
}

class LoginListener
{
  public function handle(Login $event)
  {
    Log::info("User #{$event->user->id} signed in");    
  }
}

class LogoutListener
{
  public function handle(Logout $event)
  {
    Log::info("User #{$event->user->id} signed out");    
  }
}