@absolutejs/logs

Structured log primitive for the AbsoluteJS substrate. Levels, child loggers, sinks (console-JSON, console-pretty, memory, rotating file), optional secret redaction via @absolutejs/secrets, optional trace-id correlation via @absolutejs/telemetry.

Install

bun add @absolutejs/logs

Quick start

import { createLogger, consoleJsonSink, rotatingFileSink } from '@absolutejs/logs';
import { readActiveTraceId } from '@absolutejs/telemetry';

const log = createLogger({
  level: 'info',
  fields: { service: 'api', region: 'us-east-2' },
  sinks: [
    consoleJsonSink(),
    rotatingFileSink({ path: '/var/log/api/app.log', maxBytes: 10_000_000, keep: 5 }),
  ],
  redact: (text) => broker.redact(text),     // @absolutejs/secrets
  readTraceId: readActiveTraceId,            // @absolutejs/telemetry
});

log.info('User signed in', { userId: 'u_42', tenant: 'acme' });
// → {"at":1700000000000,"level":"info","message":"User signed in","tenant":"acme","traceId":"abc123","fields":{"service":"api","region":"us-east-2","userId":"u_42"}}

const requestLog = log.child({ requestId: req.id });
requestLog.warn('rate limit exceeded', { remaining: 0 });
// Same as parent, plus requestId in fields.

Levels

trace → debug → info → warn → error → fatal. Filter at level; bump at runtime with log.setLevel('debug') (SIGUSR2-style incident triage).

Sinks

| Sink | Purpose | | --- | --- | | consoleJsonSink() | One JSON line per event. stdout for < errorThreshold, stderr above. | | consolePrettySink() | Human-readable lines for local dev. | | memorySink() | In-process FIFO buffer. .inspect() + .clear() for tests. | | rotatingFileSink({ path, maxBytes, keep }) | Append-only file with size-based rotation. |

Custom sinks just implement LogSink: { name?, write, flush?, close? }.

Composition

• @absolutejs/secrets redaction. Pass redact: broker.redact and every serialized event flows through the redactor before hitting a sink. Secrets never reach disk.
• @absolutejs/telemetry trace correlation. Pass readTraceId: readActiveTraceId and every event carries the active OTel trace id. Failure (no provider wired) silently leaves traceId off — never breaks the log line.
• @absolutejs/metrics exposure. logger.metrics() returns a LoggerMetrics shape. A @absolutejs/metrics/logs collector subpath is planned for the next release.

Metrics

logger.metrics();
// {
//   logged: { trace: 0, debug: 0, info: 100, warn: 5, error: 2, fatal: 0 },
//   writes: 214,          // 107 events × 2 sinks
//   writeErrors: 0,
//   sinkErrors: {}
// }

Operator notes

• Fire-and-forget writes. log.info(...) is synchronous and returns immediately; sink writes run in the background. Use await log.flush() before shutdown.
• Per-sink failures don't block others. One sink throwing bumps sinkErrors[name] and calls onError; the rest still receive the event. Same shape as @absolutejs/audit.
• Closed loggers drop calls silently. Once await log.close() has run, further log.info(...) calls are no-ops — no throw, no buffer.

License

BSL-1.1 with named carveout against hosted log-management platforms. Change date: 2030-05-31 (Apache 2.0).