Winston: Allow configuring formats per-transport within the same logger

Created on 8 Jul 2018 · 5Comments · Source: winstonjs/winston

What's the feature?

I have a logger with a console transport, and another transport that goes to a cloud-based logging service. For the console, I want to prefix messages with a timestamp, and colorize them. For the cloud-based logging service, I don't want timestamps because the service provides its own, and I don't want colors either.

Is this a feature you're prepared to implement, with support from us?

PRs for this feature were already sent: #427 and #422

Is configuring formats per transport already possible, but I haven't seen that capability explained in the README?

Source

dandv

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Most helpful comment

Nevermind, this is indeed possible, but the documentation completely omits mentioning the feature.

const logger = winston.createLogger({
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'error.log', level: 'error',
      format: winston.format.simple(),
    }),
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'combined.log', level: 'debug',
      format: winston.format.printf(info => `${new Date().toISOString(), ${info.message}`),
    }),
  ],
});

logger.error('prefixed by the timestamp only in `combined.log`');

dandv on 8 Jul 2018

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All 5 comments

Nevermind, this is indeed possible, but the documentation completely omits mentioning the feature.

const logger = winston.createLogger({
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'error.log', level: 'error',
      format: winston.format.simple(),
    }),
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'combined.log', level: 'debug',
      format: winston.format.printf(info => `${new Date().toISOString(), ${info.message}`),
    }),
  ],
});

logger.error('prefixed by the timestamp only in `combined.log`');

dandv on 8 Jul 2018

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Definitely add to docs plz

bradennapier on 7 Aug 2018

👍18

@dandv The printf code in your comment does not work out of the box, there is a missing closing brace after the timestamp code.

So this line...

format: winston.format.printf(info => `${new Date().toISOString(), ${info.message}`),

...needs a closing brace like so

format: winston.format.printf(info => `${new Date().toISOString()}, ${info.message}`),

Thanks for the code and knowledge for custom formatting! Much appreciated!

ariestav on 25 Sep 2018

Nevermind, this indeed possible, but the documentation completely omits mentioning the feature.

const logger = winston.createLogger({
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'error.log', level: 'error',
      format: winston.format.simple(),
    }),
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'combined.log', level: 'debug',
      format: winston.format.printf(info => `${new Date().toISOString(), ${info.message}`),
    }),
  ],
});

logger.error('prefixed by the timestamp only in `combined.log`');

@dandv what if I have another format outside of transports and inside the create logger method. Which format will be applied?

datnq102 on 7 Jul 2019

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Nevermind, this indeed possible, but the documentation completely omits mentioning the feature.
const logger = winston.createLogger({
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'error.log', level: 'error',
      format: winston.format.simple(),
    }),
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: 'combined.log', level: 'debug',
      format: winston.format.printf(info => `${new Date().toISOString(), ${info.message}`),
    }),
  ],
});

logger.error('prefixed by the timestamp only in `combined.log`');
@dandv what if I have another format outside of transports and inside the create logger method. Which format will be applied?

The one inside.