poleno

A small and fast JSON logger for Node.js applications, inspired by bunyan and bole.

Features:

• 4 logging levels: debug, info, warn and error
• logging functions accept a maximum of 2 arguments
• logger can be created with a default properties object
• child logger can inherit parent name
• automatic parsing of Error objects
• support for multiple streams

Usage

Installation:

npm install poleno

Configuration:

var poleno = require('poleno');

poleno.configure({
    streams: [
        { level: 'info', stream: process.stdout }
    ]
});

Creating a logger:

var log = poleno('FOO');
log.info('Foo', { foo: 'foo' });
// outputs: {"time":"2017-09-27T23:30:57.657Z","hostname":"debian","pid":"15491","name":"FOO","level":"info","msg":"Foo","foo":"foo"}

Creating a child logger

var childLog = log('BAR');
childLog.info('Bar', { bar: 'bar' });
// outputs: {"time":"2017-09-27T23:30:57.658Z","hostname":"debian","pid":"15491","name":"FOO:BAR","level":"info","msg":"Bar","bar":"bar"}

Viewer

A simple CLI log viewer is included:

node app.js | ./node_modules/.bin/poleno

API

poleno(name, [params])

Creates a new logger using the supplied name.

If the optional params object is provided then its properties will be included in every log message.

poleno.configure(options)

The options object can include the following properties:

• {bool} fastTime - if set, time will be a number in milliseconds
• {bool} flipArgs - if set, the log methods will accept ([params], message) as arguments instead, for compatibility
• {array} streams - array of objects with level and stream properties

logger(name, [params])

Creates a child logger. The .name property on the log message JSON will be the parent name and name separated by the : character. If the name property is a falsy value then the child logger inherits parent name.

If the optional params object is provided then its properties will be included in every log message.

logger.trace|debug|info|warn|error(message, [params])

The message string will be assigned to .msg property on the log message JSON.

If the optional params is an object then its keys will be assigned to the log message JSON. If params is not an object then it will be assigned to a .data property on the log message JSON.

If params is an Error object then it will be assigned to an .error property on the log message JSON as an object with .code, .message and .stack properties. If params has a property that is an Error object then the property will be logged as an object in the same manner.

Also, see the flipArgs configuration option above.