Really simple and performant JSON logger for node.js.
npm install logopsvar logger = require('logops');
//plain strings
logger.debug('This is an example');
// {"time":"2015-12-22T16:31:39.220Z","lvl":"DEBUG","msg":"This is an example"}
//util.format support
logger.info('Request %s %d %j', 'is', 5, {key: 'value'}, 'guy');
// {"time":"2015-12-22T16:31:56.184Z","lvl":"INFO","msg":"Request is 5 {\"key\":\"value\"} guy"}
//properties in the log trace
logger.warn({ip: '127.0.0.0'}, 'Something went wrong');
// {"ip":"127.0.0.0","time":"2015-12-22T16:33:17.002Z","lvl":"WARN","msg":"Something went wrong"}
//special case: error instance to print error info (and stack traces)...
logger.error(new TypeError('String required'));
/* {"time":"2015-12-22T16:36:39.650Z","lvl":"ERROR",
* "err":{"message":"String required","name":"TypeError","constructor":"TypeError","stack":"TypeError: String required\n at...",
* "msg":"TypeError: String required"} */
//... or specify the message
logger.fatal(new Error('Out of memory'), 'SYSTEM UNSTABLE. BYE');
/* {"time":"2015-12-22T16:45:36.468Z","lvl":"FATAL",
* "err":{"message":"Out of memory","name":"Error","constructor":"Error","stack":"Error: Out of memory\n at...",
* "msg":"SYSTEM UNSTABLE. BYE"} */-
If you give an object as the first argument, you will print its properties but not a String representation of it.
logger.info(req)will set allreqproperties in the final json.logger.info({a:'guy'}) => {"a":"guy","time":"2015-12-23T12:09:12.610Z","lvl":"INFO","msg":"undefined"} -
The pattern
logger.error(err)is very common. This API embraces the requirenment, and makes an special management of it. But getting an error stack trace is not cheap. It only will be get and printed whenlog.errororlog.fatalis used, so you can uselogger.info(new Error('User Not Found'));to not print useless stackstraces for your bussiness logic errors. You can override it, btw -
With the rest of arguments is just like calling
console.log. It will be serialized as the trace message. Easy to remember.
Logops supports using global properties that will be merged with the specific ones defined in the call. Simply override the logger.getContext method to let the logger get it. See logops.child to see how to also create loggers with context
var logger = require('logops'),
hostname = require('os').hostname();
logger.getContext = function getContext() {
return {
hostname: hostname,
pid: process.pid
};
}
logger.info({app: 'server'}, 'Startup');
// {"hostname":"host.local","pid":35502,"app":"server","time":"2015-12-23T11:47:25.862Z","lvl":"INFO","msg":"Startup"}You can set the logging level at any time. All the disabled logging methods are replaced by a noop, so there is not any performance penalty at production using an undesired level
var logger = require('logops');
// {String} level one of the following values ['DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARN', 'ERROR', 'FATAL']
logger.setLevel('DEBUG');You can also set the logging level using the LOGOPS_LEVEL environment variable:
export LOGOPS_LEVEL=DEBUGYou can get the logging level using the getLevel() function of the logger:
currentLevel = logger.getLevel();
This library incorporates two flavors of trace formatting:
- "json": writes logs as JSON. This is the DEFAULT in v1.0.0
- "dev": for development. Used with 'de-facto' NODE_ENV variable is set to 'development'
- "pipe": writes logs separating fields with pipes. DEPRECATED in v1.0.0
logger.format = logger.formatters.json;
logger.info({key:'value'}, 'This is an example: %d', 5);
// {"key":"value","time":"2015-12-23T11:55:27.041Z","lvl":"INFO","msg":"This is an example: 5"}
logger.format = logger.formatters.dev;
logger.info({key:'value'}, 'This is an example: %d', 5);
// INFO This is an example: 5 { key: 'value' }
logger.format = logger.formatters.pipe; //DEPRECATED in v1.0.0
logger.info({key:'value'}, 'This is an example: %d', 5);
// time=2015-12-23T11:57:24.879Z | lvl=INFO | corr=n/a | trans=n/a | op=n/a | msg=This is an example: 5You can also set the format specifying the formatter with LOGOPS_FORMAT environment variable:
export LOGOPS_FORMAT=json
# export LOGOPS_FORMAT=devYou can create an specialized logger for a part of your app with bound static context/properties. The child logger
will inherit its parent config: level, format, stream and context. If the parent logger has a context returned by parent.getContext(), the conflicting child logger context will take precedence
let child = logger.child({component: 'client'});
child.info('Startup');
// {"component":"client","time":"2015-12-23T11:47:25.862Z","lvl":"INFO","msg":"Startup"}TIP: Using with express/connect You can create a simply middleware to add a logger to every request with something like
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
req.logger = logger.child({
requestId: uuid.v4()
});
next();
});So your req.logger will log the requestId to allow correlation of traces in your server traces.
Note: setting child.getContext property, will override the context used to create the logger and its merge with its parent one. So you can use it to create a context free logger
You can override the format function and manage by yourself the formatting taking into account your own environment variables by
overriding the logger.format function
Omit some boring/repeated/always-the-same context properties from being logged with the dev formatter:
logger.format = logger.formatters.dev;
logger.getContext = () => ({ pid: process.pid });
logger.info({key:'value', ip:'127.0.0.1'}, 'This is an example: %d', 5);
// INFO This is an example: 5 { pid: 123342, key: 'value', ip: '127.0.0.1' }
// Specify the context fields to omit as an array
logger.formatters.dev.omit = ['pid', 'ip'];
logger.info({key:'value', ip:'127.0.0.1'}, 'This is an example: %d', 5);
// INFO This is an example: 5 { key: 'value' }Set logger.formatters.stacktracesWith array with the error levels that will print stacktraces. Default is stacktracesWith: ['ERROR', 'FATAL']
This library writes by default to process.stdout, the safest, fastest and easy way to manage logs. It's how you execute your app when you define how to manage logs.
This approach is also compatible with logrotate as this is how many servers and PaaS manage the logs. Therefore you don't need to put anything in your source code relative to logs, and all is done at execution time depending on the deployment.
Recommended execution: Pipelining the stdout to tee. With this configuration, you will not fail when the disk is full
# write all traces to out.log
set -o pipefail
node index.js | tee -a out.log > /dev/null# write error and fatal traces to error.log and all traces to out.log (using json formatter)
set -o pipefail
LOGOPS_FORMAT=json node index.js | tee >(grep -a -F -e '"lvl":"ERROR"' -e '"lvl":"FATAL"' > error.log) > out.logYou can also write logs and fail miserably stopping your app when the disk is full by doing
node index.js > out.logPlease read carefully in the node documentation how the stdout/stderr stream behaves regarding synchronous/asynchronous writing
If you want to pipe the output stream to any other stream in your source code, or even write to files (not recommended), you can override the stream used by this library
var logger = require('logops');
logger.stream = new MyOtherSuperStreamThatDoesGreatThingsExceptWriteToDisk();This project was created initially for logging using the now deprecated pipe format, used internally at Telefonica by some logging infrastructure deployments.
Now we are switching to a new one one, based on documents and a NoSQL infrastructure, where the JSON format is the one that
fits best. We got inspired by the wonderful bunyan project and made some little adjustments in our API
to be compliant with it, to reduce developer learning curve, make our preexisting code compatible and keep (or even improve) its great performance.
A very basic benchmark with the most common use case has
been setup to compare with bunyan
Running on a MAC OS X Yosemite, 2,5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, SSD disk, node 6.10.0
$ cd benchmark; npm start
> [email protected] tee /Users/javier/Documents/Proyectos/logops/benchmark
> node index.js | tee -a out.log > /dev/null
logops x 70,675 ops/sec ±11.89% (65 runs sampled)
bunyan x 81,981 ops/sec ±4.76% (70 runs sampled)
Basic logging: Fastest is bunyan,logops
logops x 67,169,402 ops/sec ±2.79% (80 runs sampled)
bunyan x 5,774,822 ops/sec ±5.74% (75 runs sampled)
Disabled logging: Fastest is logops
> [email protected] file /Users/javier/Documents/Proyectos/logops/benchmark
> node index.js > out.log
logops x 37,479 ops/sec ±5.69% (76 runs sampled)
bunyan x 36,211 ops/sec ±2.72% (77 runs sampled)
Basic logging: Fastest is logops
logops x 70,740,515 ops/sec ±1.71% (82 runs sampled)
bunyan x 6,324,283 ops/sec ±2.68% (78 runs sampled)
Disabled logging: Fastest is logops
> [email protected] null /Users/javier/Documents/Proyectos/logops/benchmark
> node index.js > /dev/null
logops x 49,509 ops/sec ±4.92% (77 runs sampled)
bunyan x 47,759 ops/sec ±4.34% (69 runs sampled)
Basic logging: Fastest is logops
logops x 68,293,618 ops/sec ±2.64% (80 runs sampled)
bunyan x 6,232,825 ops/sec ±2.42% (81 runs sampled)
Disabled logging: Fastest is logops
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