Laravel User Behavior Analytics

My current Laravel backend is running smoothly, but it’s missing visibility into how people actually move through the system. I now need user-behavior tracking added directly into the codebase so I can see exactly which pages are loaded and which buttons are pressed.

Scope
• Add event hooks for page views and button clicks across existing controllers or middleware.
• Decide whether to log these events locally (new analytics table, Eloquent model) or forward them to a third-party service—Google Analytics Measurement Protocol, Mixpanel, or another option that plays nicely with Laravel queues is fine with me as long as it’s well documented in the code.
• Keep the solution lightweight; performance and queue health matter.
• Include seed data or sample events so I can verify logging works in both development and production environments.
• Clear installation and migration instructions in the README so I can re-deploy without surprises.

Acceptance
I’ll consider the job complete when I can:
1. Trigger a page view and a button click in the app.
2. See those events arrive in the chosen storage/service with accurate metadata (user ID, route, timestamp, IP).
3. Run one sample query or export that shows counts grouped by route for at least a day’s worth of test traffic.

Everything runs on PHP 8.2, Laravel 10, MySQL, Redis, and Horizon; please stick to versions compatible with that stack.