Strapi plugin Bunyan

Bunyan strapi plugin inspired by the official Strapi Bunyan plugin.

🧾 Features

• Initialize a Bunyan instance when your Strapi app starts
• Send errors encountered in your application's end API to a specific file in JSON format

⏳ Installation

To install this plugin, you need to add a NPM dependency to your Strapi application.

# Using Yarn
yarn add strapi-plugin-bunyan

# Or using NPM
npm install strapi-plugin-bunyan

⚙ Configuration

If you need to change error file location or the app name you must add your configuration in ./config/plugins.js.

property	type	description
path	string(default:'./error.log')	Log file location
appName	string(default:'myapp')	Your application name provided in the logs

Example

./config/plugins.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  // ...
    bunyan: {
        appName: 'goodProject',
        path: './error2.log',
    },
  // ...
});

If your log file path is inside your Strapi project, you need to add this lines in the config server file ./config/server.js.Otherwise your server will restart each time the log file is changed.

./config/server.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  // ...
    admin: {
        watchIgnoreFiles: [
            "./error.log"
        ]
    }
  // ...
});

Global Bunyan service

You can access a Bunyan service throughout your app.

const bunyanService = strapi.plugins.bunyan.services.bunyan;

This service exposes the following methods:

sendError(error)

Use it to manually send errors to the log file.

Example

try {
  // Your code here
} catch (error) {
  strapi.plugins.bunyan.services.bunyan.sendError(error);
  throw error;
}

getInstance()

Use it if you need direct access to the Bunyan instance, which should already already be initialized. It's useful if sendError doesn't suit your needs.

Example

const bunyanInstance = strapi.plugins.bunyan.services.bunyan.getInstance();

🎉 Use Bunyan CLI

You can use the power of Bunyan CLI http://trentm.com/node-bunyan/bunyan.1.html

Example

./node_modules/.bin/bunyan error.log

💔 Disabling

Disabling only the middleware

By default, this plugin uses a middleware that logs all your unhandled API errors to log file. You can disable this feature by turning off the bunyan middleware in your app's config.

Example

./config/middleware.js

module.exports = {
  //...
  settings: {
    bunyan: {
      enabled: false,
    },
  },
};

Only the middleware will be disabled. You will still have access to the Bunyan service.

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to fork and make a Pull Request to this plugin project. All the input is warmly welcome!

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