Hono Request Logger

Features

A lightweight HTTP request logging middleware for Hono built on top of @logtape/logtape.

• Logs incoming requests and outgoing responses with method, path, status code, and latency.
• Color-coded status codes (2xx/3xx green, 4xx yellow, 5xx red) via picocolors.
• Automatically skips noisy /metrics and /healthz endpoints.
• Picks log level from response status: debug for 2xx/3xx, warn for 4xx, error for 5xx.
• Ships with an opinionated ANSI color formatter (prettyFormatter) that understands logtape requestId context properties.
• Unicode-aware — falls back to ASCII arrows on terminals that don't support UTF-8.
• Built with TypeScript for static type checking with exported types along the library.

Usage

npm install @mgcrea/hono-request-logger @logtape/logtape hono --save
# or
pnpm add @mgcrea/hono-request-logger @logtape/logtape hono

Basic usage with Hono

import { Hono } from "hono";
import { configureLogger, httpLogger } from "@mgcrea/hono-request-logger";

await configureLogger();

const app = new Hono();

app.use("*", httpLogger());

app.get("/", (c) => c.text("Hello Hono!"));

export default app;

Disabling incoming request logs

By default the middleware logs both the incoming request and the outgoing response. Pass logIncoming: false to only log responses:

app.use("*", httpLogger({ logIncoming: false }));

Using the formatter with your own logtape configuration

If you already bootstrap logtape elsewhere, you can plug in the provided formatter directly:

import { configure, getConsoleSink } from "@logtape/logtape";
import { prettyFormatter } from "@mgcrea/hono-request-logger";

await configure({
  sinks: { console: getConsoleSink({ formatter: prettyFormatter }) },
  loggers: [{ category: [], sinks: ["console"], lowestLevel: "debug" }],
});

Authors

• Olivier Louvignes <[email protected]>

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Olivier Louvignes <[email protected]>

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