TruBudget Logging Config for Pino

This is module exports a pino logger instance with a common configuration for the TruBudget project

API

createPinoLogger(name)

Creates a Pino Logger instance that can be used to log messages. name will be passed on to pino to describe the name of the process which is logging messages

createPinoExpressLogger(pino, [options])

Creates a pino-http instance that can be used together with express pino should be a pino logger instance that can be created beforehand with createPinoLogger

options optional object containing additional setting, e.g. { "shortRoutesLogging": true }

• silenceLoggingOnFrequentRoutes: (boolean) if set to true it will ignore logs in routes "/readiness", "/liveliness" and "/version".
• shortRoutesLogging: (boolean) if set to true it will provide only shorter, one-line output for each HTTP call.

getLevel(level)

Takes a string that should be a loglevel (info, debug, error...) and makes sure it is a known log level. the validated string will be returned. If an invalid string is passed undefinedwill be returned

Pino Log Levels

These are the supported Log Levels:

• trace
• debug
• info
• warn
• error
• fatal

Information about when to use which level can be found here