Laravel Log channel undefined method

I am at a loss, I can't find anyone else having this issue so it feels like I'm missing something obvious, but I cannot figure it out. When I attempt to log to a specific channel in Laravel (Reference Here) using

Log::channel('a channel')->info('a message');

I get:

PHP Error: Call to undefined method Illuminate/Log/Writer::channel()

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