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@log4js-node/slack
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Sends log events to a slack channel. This is an optional appender for use with log4js.
npm install @log4js-node/slack
type - @log4js-node/slacktoken - string - your Slack API token (see the slack and slack-node docs)channel_id - string - the channel to send log messagesicon_url - string (optional) - the icon to use for the messageusername - string - the username to display with the messagelayout - object (optional, defaults to basicLayout) - the layout to use for the message (see layouts).log4js.configure({
appenders: {
alerts: {
type: '@log4js-node/slack',
token: 'abc123def',
channel_id: 'prod-alerts',
username: 'our_application'
}
},
categories: {
default: { appenders: ['alerts'], level: 'error' }
}
});
This configuration will send all error (and above) messages to the prod-alerts slack channel, with the username our_application.
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Slack Appender for log4js-node
The npm package @log4js-node/slack receives a total of 567 weekly downloads. As such, @log4js-node/slack popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @log4js-node/slack demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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