Node.js – logging / Use morgan and winston

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This article does an excellent job for what you want to do.

http://tostring.it/2014/06/23/advanced-logging-with-nodejs/

For your specific code you probably need something like this:

var logger = new winston.Logger({
    transports: [
        new winston.transports.File({
            level: 'info',
            filename: './logs/all-logs.log',
            handleExceptions: true,
            json: true,
            maxsize: 5242880, //5MB
            maxFiles: 5,
            colorize: false
        }),
        new winston.transports.Console({
            level: 'debug',
            handleExceptions: true,
            json: false,
            colorize: true
        })
    ],
    exitOnError: false
});

logger.stream = {
    write: function(message, encoding){
        logger.info(message);
    }
};

app.use(require("morgan")("combined", { "stream": logger.stream }));

This will set up Winston to write a log to the console as well as a file. Then you can use the last expression to pass output from the morgan middleware into winston.

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