Central Logger

Central Logger is a tiny library for streaming the logs and info about the node application to the remote server. It is working using 'fire and forget' protocol.

Install

Available via npm.

npm install central-logger

Usage

Set up your remote central server :

var Server = require('central-logger').Server;
 
//create the server
var server = new Server(
    '127.0.0.1', 		//host
    3500			//port
);
 
//set up the transport location
server.addTransports('/var/log/mydirectory/');
 
server.listen();
 

start the server,

node server.js

set up your client apps that sends the log or info to the remote server :

const Client = require('central-logger').Client;
 
//category
const MODULE1 = 'module1';
const MODULE2 = 'module2';
 
//create the client logger
var logger = new Client('127.0.0.1', 3500);
 

Afterwards just log as usual:

logger.log("info", "foo", MODULE1);
logger.log("warn", "bar", MODULE2);

It will send the log to the central server. The syntax for the log method is ,

log(level, message, category);

and then on your remote server you can check the logged files,

cat /var/log/mydirectory/MODULE1.log
 
{"level":"info","message":"foo","timestamp":"2018-07-05T10:36:41.357Z"}

If you don't mention any category while logging like logger.log("info", "foo"); it will log them into the deafult file 'error.log'