winston-azure-table-storage

Table storage transport for winston Microsoft azure SDK. Fork of original winston-azure-sw project.

In short, with this library you can use account/key as well as host/sas. Also, it fixes bug with generation of entity key (if your app logs too fast, it's possible to generate same keys for different entities.) in original lib.

Installation

  $ npm install winston
  $ npm install winston-azure-table-storage

Usage

Here is the use of account/key pair.

  var winston = require('winston');
  require('winston-azure-table-storage');
  winston.configure({
      transports: [
          new (winston.transports.AzureTable) ({
            account: "Azure storage account sub domain ([A-Za-z0-9])",
            key: "The long Azure storage secret key",
            table: "The name of the table (why not just 'log'?)",
            partition: require('os').hostname(),
            level: 'warn',
            metaAsColumns: true
          })
      ]
  });
  
  winston.warn('Hello toto!');

And here is the use of host/sas pair, created with Access Policies and SAS (See Storage Explorer fro details)

  var winston = require('winston');
  require('winston-azure-table-storage');

  
  winston.configure({
      transports: [
          new (winston.transports.AzureTable) ({
            host: "somestorage.table.core.windows.net", 
            sas: "The long Azure SAS", // something like '?sv=2015-12-11&si=Folder1-A123&tn=folder1&sig=BLA-BLA'
            table: "Folder1", //SAS usssualy also contains it
            partition: require('os').hostname(),
            level: 'warn',
            metaAsColumns: true
          })
      ]
  });
  
  winston.warn('Hello toto!');

The Azure transport accepts the following options:

• level: Level of messages that this transport should log (defaults to info).
• account: The name of the Windows Azure storage account to use
• key: The access key used to authenticate into this storage account
• host: The name of the Windows Azure storage host
• sas: The SAS used to authenticate and associated with given Access Policy
• table: The name of the table to log to (defaults to 'log'). Must already exist.
• partition: The value to use for the PartitionKey in each row (defaults to 'log').
• metaAsColumns: If true, the transport will store the metadata key/value pairs in individual columns (this can be helpful when querying table storage for log entries with specific metadata values). The default is to store the entire meta value as a single JSON string in a 'meta' column.
• rowKeyBuilder: A function to build the primary key, default is:

    function()
    {
        var rtext = '';
        var possible = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789';
        for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            rtext += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));
        return (new Date()).getTime() + '_' + (new Date()).getMilliseconds() + '_' + rtext;
    }