Winston Logging - separate levels to separate Transports

logging, node.js, winston

Solution

I've answered this in another post:

According to Winston's documentation, the default behavior is to log all the messages which have at least the specifies importance aka logging level.

Winston allows you to define a level property on each transport which specifies the maximum level of messages that a transport should log.

But there are ways to achieve your requirements. I'll try to show you some of the possibilities, you can choose the method that works the best for you.

1. Custom Transports (Recommended):

You can create a custom transport and log only the levels you want. Here is an example just to give you an idea:

let mainLogger = new (winston.Logger)({
  transports: [
    new (winston.transports.Console)(),
  ]
});

class CustomTransport extends winston.Transport {
  constructor(options) {
    super(options);
    this.name = 'customLogger';
    this.level = options && options.level || 'info';
    this.levelOnly = options && options.levelOnly;
    this.levels = options && options.levels || [];
  }

  log(level, msg, meta, callback) {
    if (!this.levelOnly || this.levels.indexOf(level) > -1) {
      mainLogger[level](msg, meta);
    }
    callback(null, true);
  }
}

winston.transports.CustomTransport = CustomTransport;

let myLogger = new winston.Logger({
  transports: [
    new (winston.transports.CustomTransport)({
      levelOnly: true,
      levels: ['info'],
    }),
  ]
});

myLogger.info('will be logged');
myLogger.warn('will NOT be logged');
myLogger.info('will be logged as well');

2. Use `winston-levelonly`

This is a fork of the original winston package. The fork is at https://github.com/damianof/winston This version adds a levelOnly option to make winston log only the specified level.

In the end, I would like to encourage you to read these relevant discussions:

- https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/614

- https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/812

- https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/pull/628

- Winston Logging - separate levels to separate Transports

Problem

I am using Winston for logging with 2 different transports - File and MongoDB. I have set the level for File as "INFO" and for MongoDB as "ERROR". If I now log, ``` log.info('some info...'); log.warn('some Warning...'); log.error('some error...'); ``` All of these would go to the LogFile, and only Error would go to DB. I want only Info messages to go to File, and none other. I understand the system log levels in Winston, and that only Error goes to MongoDB because its the highest level. Since, INFO is a lower level, any log with the level INFO or higher goes to the file (as per my logger definiton) I have read here but couldn't find an answer. Even if I create custom levels, how can I possibly restrict each transport to only one logging level?

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