@tidalflow/logger

Structured logger that targets both the console and remote cloud formats. This includes:

• Pretty formatting for the console.
• Request logging middleware.
• Google Cloud structured logger.
• Google Cloud batched tracing via OpenTelemetry.

Install

npm install @tidalflow/logger

Usage

const logger = require('@tidalflow/logger');
logger.setupGoogleCloud({
  // Set up gcloud structured logging. Default true.
  logging: true,
  // Set up gcloud tracing. Default true.
  tracing: true,
});

This initialization code should be added as early as possible in your application.

Options

Enable both logging and tracing and tell the tracing to ignore specific paths.

const logger = require('@tidalflow/logger');
logger.setupGoogleCloud({
  tracing: {
    ignoreIncomingPaths: ['/'],
  },
});

Log Levels

In development, setting process.env.LOG_LEVEL will set the log level which silences lower level output:

• debug
• info
• warn
• error

The default is info which silences debug level logs.

Methods

logger.useConsole

Sets the logger to use console output for development. This is the default.

logger.useGoogleCloud

Sets the logger to output structured logs in JSON format. Accepts an options object:

• getTracePayload - This connects the logger to tracing, allowing you to batch logs by requests.

logger.useGoogleCloudTracing

Enables batched Google Cloud tracing for Koa and Mongoose. This will allow discovery of slow operations in your application. The Cloud Trace API must be enabled to use this.

logger.middleware

Koa middleware that logs HTTP requests:

const Koa = require('koa');
const logger = require('@tidalflow/logging');

const app = new Koa();
app.use(logger.middleware());

Logger Methods

logger.debug('Hello');
logger.info('Hello');
logger.warn('Hello');
logger.error('Hello');

The basic methods will output logs at different levels.

Object Logging

logger.info({
  foo: 'bar',
});

Passing an object into the console logger will output it as you would see in the console. When using the Google Cloud logger it will output a structured JSON payload that allows inspecting of the object in the logging console.

Multiple Arguments

logger.info('foo', 'bar');
logger.info(obj1, obj2);

Multiple arguments will be concatenated together in the console logger. The Google Cloud logger will present a truncated message and export complex objects to the JSON payload.

String Formatting

logger.info('%s -> %s', 'foo', 'bar'); // foo -> bar

Basic printf style formatting is supported out of the box by the console logger, and the Google Cloud console will format basic tokens (%s, %d, and %i). Note that decimal precision formatting such as "%.2d" is not supported.