Winston New Relic Transport

A simple, lightweight, and easy-to-use custom transport for Winston logger that exports logs to New Relic using HTTP requests. This library has no external dependencies, ensuring a lightweight and minimalistic solution.

Features

• Simple and lightweight library with no external dependencies.
• Custom transport for exporting logs to New Relic using HTTP requests.
• Easy integration with your existing Winston logger configuration.
• Supports compression of log payloads to optimize network utilization.
• Optional batching of logs for efficient transmission to the New Relic Logs API.
• Fine-grained control over batch size and batch timeout for optimal log handling.
• Full unit test coverage for reliable and robust functionality.
• Provides a flush method to manually flush the transport and ensure all logs are sent.
• Written in TypeScript for enhanced type safety and editor support.

Installation

npm install winston-nr

Usage

import winston from 'winston';
import { NewRelicTransport } from 'winston-nr';

// Create the transport and a Winston logger instance and
const nrTransport = new NewRelicTransport({
  apiUrl: 'https://log-api.newrelic.com/log/v1',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  compression: true,
  retries: 3,
  batchSize: 10,
  batchTimeout: 5000,
});
const logger = winston.createLogger({
  transports: [nrTransport],
});

// Log a message
logger.info('Log message', { test: true });

// Manually flush the transport to ensure all logs are sent
await nrTransport.flush();
// Or, automatically trigger the flush by ending the logger
await new Promise(resolve =>
  logger.on('error', resolve).on('close', resolve).on('finish', logger.close).end()
);

// You can safely exit the app without losing your logs
process.exit(0);

Options

The NewRelicTransport accepts the following options:

• apiUrl (required): The URL of the New Relic Logs API.
• apiKey (required): The API key used to authenticate with the New Relic Logs API.
• timeout: Timeout for the HTTP request in milliseconds (default: 5000).
• retries: Number of times to retry failed requests (default: 0).
• compression: Enable gzip compression for the log payload (default: false).
• batchSize: Number of logs to batch together before sending.
• batchTimeout: Time interval in milliseconds to wait for batching logs.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.