@vizir/simple-json-logger

A fast, simple and opinionated json logger to stdout.

Motivation

This library is designed to be an easy and fast way to log json messages to stdout.

If you want a more advanced solution, we recommend to you use winston.

Installation

$ npm install @vizir/simple-json-logger

Usage

NodeJS Sample with Javascript

const { Logger } = require("@vizir/simple-json-logger");

const logger = new Logger({
  app: "ConsoleApplication",
  requestId: "3a7d3223-e96f-47da-b3bb-73f609b9f55d",
});
logger.debug("debug message", { extraInfo: 123 });
logger.info("info message", { extraInfo: "abc" });
logger.warn("warn message", { moreInfo: "abc123" });
logger.error("error message", { otherInfo: "qwerty" });

Security Filtering

By default, the logger will filter some sensitive values from logs output. They will verify if an object key, contain some of the following words: (The validation is case insensitive)

• Authorization
• Password
• Secret
• Token
• Key

You can add or remove the default blacklist, using the includeBlackList or excludeBlackList attribute into options, as following:

const logger = new Logger(
  {
    app: "ConsoleApplication",
    requestId: "3a7d3223-e96f-47da-b3bb-73f609b9f55d",
  },
  {
    includeBlackList: ["myPasswordField"],
    excludeBlackList: ["accessToken"],
  }
);
logger.error("error message", { myPasswordField: "qwerty" });

The output of the following command are:

{
  "app": "ConsoleApplication",
  "requestId": "3a7d3223-e96f-47da-b3bb-73f609b9f55d",
  "level": "error",
  "datetime": "2020-05-20T00:20:10.432Z",
  "message": "origin: error message",
  "myPasswordField": "*sensitive*"
}

Support

Tested in Node.js 10-12.

License

The MIT License (MIT)