добавляю основной trait для автоматического логирования изменений в моделях, его нужно подключать в моделях, изменения которых планируется логировать (подробнее в конфлюенс). Также добавляю конфиг с настройками пакета логирования (хотя возможно, он автоматически создается при установке пакета)

config/activitylog.php

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+<?php
+
+return [
+
+    /*
+     * If set to false, no activities will be saved to the database.
+     */
+    'enabled' => env('ACTIVITY_LOGGER_ENABLED', true),
+
+    /*
+     * When the clean-command is executed, all recording activities older than
+     * the number of days specified here will be deleted.
+     */
+    //'delete_records_older_than_days' => 365,
+
+    /*
+     * If no log name is passed to the activity() helper
+     * we use this default log name.
+     */
+    'default_log_name' => 'default',
+
+    /*
+     * You can specify an auth driver here that gets user models.
+     * If this is null we'll use the current Laravel auth driver.
+     */
+    'default_auth_driver' => null,
+
+    /*
+     * If set to true, the subject returns soft deleted models.
+     */
+    'subject_returns_soft_deleted_models' => false,
+
+    /*
+     * This model will be used to log activity.
+     * It should implement the Spatie\Activitylog\Contracts\Activity interface
+     * and extend Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model.
+     */
+    'activity_model' => \Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Activity::class,
+
+    /*
+     * This is the name of the table that will be created by the migration and
+     * used by the Activity model shipped with this package.
+     */
+    'table_name' => env('ACTIVITY_LOGGER_TABLE_NAME', 'activity_log'),
+
+    /*
+     * This is the database connection that will be used by the migration and
+     * the Activity model shipped with this package. In case it's not set
+     * Laravel's database.default will be used instead.
+     */
+    'database_connection' => env('ACTIVITY_LOGGER_DB_CONNECTION'),
+
+];