diff --git a/src/Watchers/LogWatcher.php b/src/Watchers/LogWatcher.php
index 7bacfa7..7adcddd 100644
--- a/src/Watchers/LogWatcher.php
+++ b/src/Watchers/LogWatcher.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 use OpenTelemetry\API\Instrumentation\CachedInstrumentation;
 use OpenTelemetry\API\Logs\LogRecord;
 use OpenTelemetry\API\Logs\Map\Psr3;
+use TypeError;
 
 class LogWatcher extends Watcher
 {
@@ -36,9 +37,17 @@ public function recordLog(MessageLogged $log): void
     {
         $underlyingLogger = $this->logger->getLogger();
 
-        /** @phan-suppress-next-line PhanUndeclaredMethod */
-        if (method_exists($underlyingLogger, 'isHandling') && !$underlyingLogger->isHandling($log->level)) {
-            return;
+        /**
+         * This assumes that the underlying logger (expected to be monolog) would accept `$log->level` as a string.
+         * With monolog < 3.x, this method would fail. Let's prevent this blowing up in Laravel<10.x.
+         */
+        try {
+            /** @phan-suppress-next-line PhanUndeclaredMethod */
+            if (method_exists($underlyingLogger, 'isHandling') && !$underlyingLogger->isHandling($log->level)) {
+                return;
+            }
+        } catch (TypeError) {
+            // Should this fail, we should continue to emit the LogRecord.
         }
 
         $attributes = [