access-log

Add simple access logs to any http or https server

Usage

var http = require('http');
var accesslog = require('access-log');

http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  accesslog(req, res);
  res.end();
}).listen(80, '0.0.0.0');

This will automatically log requests as they come in to the web server that look like...

127.0.0.1 - - [13/Sep/2013:01:38:09 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "-"
127.0.0.1 - - [13/Sep/2013:01:38:09 -0400] "GET /testing HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "-"
127.0.0.1 - - [13/Sep/2013:01:38:10 -0400] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "-"

Customization

accesslog(req, res, [format], [function])

format

You can pass in a format string, the default is Apache Common Log Format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Log_Format

:ip :userAgent :userID [:clfDate] ":method :url HTTP/:httpVersion" :statusCode :contentLength

• clfDate: The date of the end of the response in Apache Common Log format
• contentLength: The response Content-Length header, or - if unset
• delta: The time in ms from request to response
• endDate: The ISO formatted string when the response was ended
• endTime: The epoch time when the response was ended
• httpVersion: The HTTP version used (ie. 1.0, 1.1)
• ip: The remote IP, using X-Forwarded-For if set
• method: The HTTP method
• protocol: HTTP or HTTPS
• referer: The request Referer header, or - if unset
• startDate: The ISO formatted string when the request was received
• startTime: The epoch time when the request was received
• statusCode: The response status code sent from the server
• url: The requested URL
• urlDecoded: The decoded request URL (ie. %20 => )
• userID: The username if applicable
• userAgent: The request User-Agent header, or - if unset

function

You can also pass in your own custom callback, the default is console.log. The only argument passed is the access log string

Example

var format = 'url=":url" method=":method" statusCode=":statusCode" delta=":delta" ip=":ip"';

accesslog(req, res, format, function(s) {
  console.log(s);
});

yields

url="/projects" method="GET" statusCode="200" delta="0" ip="127.0.0.1"
url="/testing" method="GET" statusCode="200" delta="1" ip="127.0.0.1"
url="/index.html" method="GET" statusCode="200" delta="0" ip="127.0.0.1"

Installation

npm install access-log

Extend

Consider further customizing the access logs by using the [log-timestamp] (https://github.com/bahamas10/node-log-timestamp) module to prepend a timestamp automatically.

License

MIT Licensed