sails-bunyan

A module replacing the Sails default logger with Bunyan. Supports Sails 0.10.x.

For Sails 0.11.x, see sails-hook-bunyan.

To use, simply inject the logger in config/bootstrap.js.

var injectBunyan = require('sails-bunyan').injectBunyan;

module.exports.bootstrap = function (done) {
  injectBunyan();
  done();
}

To configure Bunyan, put a bunyan object in config/log.js. The defaults are

module.exports.log = {
  /** Sails logging level, for backward comparability */
  level: 'info',
  /** If true, log uncaughtExceptions and terminate the process */
  logUncaughtException: false,
  /** If given, file to log to instead of stdout */
  filePath: null,
  /** If given, signal to listen on for file rotation */
  rotationSignal: null,
  /** Configuration to pass to the Bunyan logger */
  bunyan: {
    /** Logger name */
    name: 'sails',
    /** Bunyan logging level */
    level: 'debug',
    /** Bunyan serializers */
    serializers: bunyan.stdSerializers,
    /** Array of output streams */
    streams: null
  }
};

By default, sails-bunyan will log to stdout. If a filePath is specified, it will instead log to the named file. If both filePath and bunyan.streams are specified, the file stream is appended to the list of given streams.

For rotationSignal, it's recommended to use SIGHUP. SIGUSR1 is reserved by Node, and will start the debugger. SIGUSR2 is reserved by Sails, and will lower the sails app. Upon receiving the signal, sails-bunyan will call bunyan.reopenFileStreams(); allowing for something like logrotate to handle the actual file rotation logic.

Request Logger

sails-bunyan also provides a middleware function that can inject a Bunyan child logger onto every request. This is configured in your app's config/http.js.

var injectRequestLogger = require('sails-bunyan').injectRequestLogger;

module.exports.http = {
  order: [
    'injectRequestLogger',
    // Other middleware
  ],

  injectRequestLogger: injectRequestLogger
};