winston-tagged-http-logger

Pipes events from a node HTTP server (vanilla OR express!) to a tagged-logger for winston.

Install me!

npm install winston-tagged-http-logger

Example

This will create a new winston logger and a new tagged-logger, and use a tagged-console-target to write the output to the console in all the colours of the rainbow.

var server = require('http').createServer();
 
// create our winston logger
var winston = require('winston');
var winstonLogger = new winston.Logger();
 
// create a transport so our logs have somewhere to go
var TaggedConsoleTarget = require('tagged-console-target');
winston.add(new TaggedConsoleTarget());
 
// make a new tagged logger to generate tagged log messages
var TaggedLogger = require('tagged-logger');
var logger = new TaggedLogger(winstonLogger, ['my amazing server']);
 
// Use this module to pipe the events from an http server to the logger
require('winston-tagged-http-logger')(server, log);
 
// All done! Events from `server` are now being piped to our `logger`!

What events are logged?

• When the server starts running, showing the host and port that the server started on.
• When a request is responded to, the client, path, status code, method and response time are logged.

What is the format of the logs?

Why, take a look! Here's an example of a log:

19:35:53.255 2013-06-26 Wednesday
19:35:53.589 [kvass, http] Listening on 0.0.0.0:9506
19:36:06.359 [kvass, http, 127.0.0.1:50230] GET /user/active 200 12ms

Broken down, these are the parts of a request log:

• 19:36:06.359 the time on the server at which the request was received
• [kvass, http, tags that have been assigned to this logger
• 127.0.0.1:50230] a tag representing the origin of the request
• GET the request method
• /user/active the requested path
• 200 the response status code
• 12ms the time it took to respond to the request