README.md

pino-mongodb

Insert JSON from stdin into MongoDB

This project is part of the pino logger family, however you can use it to parse and insert any JSON into the mongo.

Install

$ npm i pino-mongodb

Usage as Pino Transport

You can use this module as a pino transport like so:

const pino = require('pino')
const transport = pino.transport({
  target: 'pino-mongodb',
  level: 'info',
  options: {
    uri: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/',
    database: 'logs',
    collection: 'log-collection',
    mongoOptions: {
      auth: {
        username: 'one',
        password: 'two'
      }
    }
  }
})

pino(transport)

The mongoOptions is provided to the the standard mongodb client. All the available options are described on its official documentation.

Note that you may encouter missing logs in special cases: it dependes on data and mongo's version. Please checkout the mongodb limitation official documentation.
For example on MongoDB 4:

// IT DOES NOT WORK:
log.info({ $and: [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }] }, 'my query is')

// IT WORKS:
log.info({ query: { $and: [{ a: 1 }, { b: 2 }]} }, 'my query is')

If you want a custom parser to handle the above case. You need to wrap pino-mongo and pass a function through option.parseLine. Any value that is not a function will be ignored in this option.

// mongo-transport.js
'use strict'

const transport = require('pino-mongodb')

module.exports = function(opts) {
  opts.parseLine = function(str) { // `str` is passed from `pino` and expected to be a string
    const obj = JSON.parse(str)
    
    // do anything you want...

    return obj // return value is expected to be a json that will pass and save inside mongodb
  }
  return transport(opts)
}

// main.js
const pino = require('pino')
const transport = pino.transport({
  target: './mongo-transport.js',
  uri: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/logs',
  collection: 'log-collection',
})
pino(transport)

Usage as Pino Legacy Transport

Pino supports a legacy transport interface that is still supported by this module.

Get started

$ echo '{"name": "Viktor"}' | pino-mongodb [options] [mongo-url]

$ cat many.logs | pino-mongodb [options] [mongo-url]

$ node ./app.js | pino-mongodb [options] [mongo-url]

CLI Options

Usage: pino-mongodb [options] [mongo-url]

Insert JSON from stdin into MongoDB

Options:
  -V, --version            output the version number
  -c, --collection <name>  database collection (default: "logs")
  -o, --stdout             output inserted documents into stdout (default:
                           false)
  -e, --errors             output insertion errors into stderr (default: false)
  -h, --help               display help for command

Tests

To run unit tests:

$ npm t

To run integrational tests with real mongo server:

$ npm run trial

Note, you will have to have docker and docker-compose installed on your machine for that!

License

Licensed under MIT.