Cut Wood

Another logger, but this one is aimed at devs. Not for production but for a simple daily developer life.

Status

Under development - not usable

Aims

1. Transform a stream of dense unintelligible logging (from stdout) into something that a dev currently cares about (that might be different per day)
2. Parse historic dense unintelligible log files into searchable form
3. Using the parse logs, easily find via the cli a line of logging that is of interest

Current Usage

This is under development and is likely to change Instal globally

npm install -g cutwood

Then pipe into it

ping www.rankida.com | cutwood

by default it will just echo what you give it, but more coming soon!

A very simple configuration currently under the profile name of "server" will strip out any ops logging (like you can get from a hapijs server) and will also colour red any logs with the word error in it.

node ./test/fixtures/server.js | cutwood --profile server

This uses a simple test script in server.js to generate some logs. Run it without cutwood to see what the original looks like.

Implementation thoughts

There are a few stages

Input: _Get the logs_
  `-> stdout
  `-> single log file
  `-> single folder with log files
  `-> single folder with many sub-folders with logs somewhere in and about there
Parsing: _Turn log lines into objects_
  `-> For now simple transform of one log line to one object
     `-> In the future there could be places where multiple log lines make up an object eg stack traces
  `-> string splits, regexes, JSON parsing etc
Filtering: _Throw it away_
  `-> exclude an entry permanently from progressing
  `-> regex or simple javascript func
  `-> could come before and after parsing
Output format: _Send it to where it needs to go_
  `-> For consoles that will be pretty printing etc
    `-> conditions should be placed on it because some lines may be just raw log, others might be pretty formats
  `-> For search indexes we might need to prepare the object with what is searchable/keywords/untokenized etc

References

• through - https://github.com/dominictarr/through
• transform-stream - https://github.com/Raynos/transform-stream

Possible Usages

cutwoood
    .stdin()
    .remove()
    .transform(//)