How to log plugin errors to plugin error_log file

By setting the second argument to 3 for error_log:

$pluginlog = plugin_dir_path(__FILE__).'debug.log';
$message="SOME ERROR".PHP_EOL;
error_log($message, 3, $pluginlog);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php

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