advanced-node-logger

A Nodejs Logger plugin, with 3 options to write logs to

• Console
• File
• Database

Version 1.0.0

Getting started

Simple Usage

var logger = require('advanced-node-logger')
logger.info("This is an info log")

This by defaults logs all types, info, debug, warning, error and critical and writes it in to console.

Advanced Usage

Setting config file

create a json file with all options you want to set and pass the path of file to config function

log-config.json

{
    "log-level":4,
    "log-type":"console",
    "time-stamp":true,
}

app.js

  logger.config(__dirname, 'log-config.json');

PS: __dirname should be given as such for correct creation of logs

Log Types

Console Logs

By default all logs will be written on to console diffrentiated with color codes

log-config.json

{
    
    "log-type":"console",
    
}

File Logs

For file logs in the log-config.json set "log-type" to file and "file-path" to the folder you want to save logs to. By default logs will be stored in /logs directory

log-config.json

{
    "log-level":4,
    "log-type":"file",
    "file-path":"/logs/"
}

DB Logs

For storing logs in database connection string to the database has to be passed, and time stamp will be automatically stored in DB irrespective of "time-stamp" flag

log-config.json

{
    "log-level":4,
    "log-type":"db",
    "connection-string":"mongodb://<dbusername>:<dbpassword>@ds121099.mlab.com:21029/<dbname>"
}

Options

Options	Values
log-level	Takes numbers from 1-4 where, 1 - critical and error, 2 - critical, error and warning, 3- critical, error, warning and debug, 4- all
log-type	console, file and db. By default console
time-stamp	true or false. By default true
file-path	Takes the path where logs should be stored. By Default null
connection-string	Takes db connection string. By Default null