pino-http-send

A basic handler for pino logs that sends batches to a desired endpoint via HTTP or HTTPS.

Pre v1 is subject to breaking changes on minor version change.

Installation

$ npm i pino-http-send

Usage

$ pino-http-send --help
pino-http-send [options]
 
Sending
  --method, -m
             [string] [choices: "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "GET"] [default: "POST"]
  --bodyType, -b   type of body to send
                          [string] [choices: "json", "ndjson"] [default: "json"]
  --url            url to send logs to                       [string] [required]
  --batchSize, -s  how many logs to send at a time        [number] [default: 10]
  --timeout, -t    timeout (in ms) to send logs in bucket that are not filled
                                                        [number] [default: 5000]
 
Basic Auth
  --username, -u  basic auth username                                   [string]
  --password, -p  basic auth password                                   [string]
 
Retry
  --retries, -r   number of retries to do if failure       [number] [default: 5]
  --interval, -i  interval (in ms) to retry sending if failure
                                                        [number] [default: 1000]
 
Options:
  --help        Show help                                              [boolean]
  --version     Show version number                                    [boolean]
  --log, -l     log to console as well                [boolean] [default: false]
  --silent      silence pino-http-send logs for failures and retries
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  --config, -c  path to json config                                     [string]

Environment Variables

All options can be defined in the environment and are prefixed with PINO_HTTP_SEND_. All camel-cased options are parsed with delimiters of _.

e.g. The option batchSize as an env var would be PINO_HTTP_SEND_BATCH_SIZE.

URL

Example

$ node . | pino-http-send --url=http://localhost:8080

You can also do https...

$ node . | pino-http-send --url=https://myserver.com:8080

Body Type

• ndjson - New-line delimited JSON. See ndjson
• json - Standard JSON sending of data. Logs are sent in the format of

  {
    "logs": [...logs]
  }

Auth

Currently only basic auth is implemented for the CLI usage. For header usage, you can see the API usage.

API

You can also use this module as a pino destination.

This will use the same batching function like the CLI usage. If the batch length is not reached within a certain time (timeout), it will auto "flush".

createWriteStream

The options passed to this follow the same values as the CLI defined above.

Property	Type	Required/Default
url	string	REQUIRED
log	boolean	false
silent	boolean	false
method	string	"POST"
bodyType	string	"json"
username	string
password	string
headers	Record<string,string>
batchSize	number	10
retries	number	5
interval	number	1000
timeout	number	5000
config	string

import { createWriteStream } from 'pino-http-send';
 
const stream = createWriteStream({
  url: 'http://localhost:8080',
});
 
const logger = pino(
  {
    level: 'info',
  },
  stream,
);
 
logger.info('test log!');