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appinsights-express-middleware
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Middleware for handling Microsoft Application Insights inside an express application.
A simple middleware for exposing Microsoft Application Insights in your Express application.
npm install appinsights-express-middleware@latest
For setting up logging in your application you need to import the logger
function and pass your application as the first parameter and your Application Insights key in the option object as the second parameter.
import * as express from 'express';
import { logger } from 'appinsights-express-middleware';
const app = express();
app.use(logger(app, { key: 'YOUR_INSTRUMENTATION_KEY' }));
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
For tracking errors you need to import the middleware explictly and pass it to express after all other app.use()
and route calls.
import * as express from 'express';
import * as bodyParser from 'body-parser'
import { logError } from 'appinsights-express-middleware';
const app = express();
app.use(logger(app, { key: 'YOUR_INSTRUMENTATION_KEY', traceErrors: true }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(logError);
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
With this setup Express will log every request and track every error and send it to Application Insights. But how about logging inside your routes, or different parts of your application?
After you set up the logger it is available through the res
object.
import * as express from 'express';
import { logger } from 'appinsights-express-middleware';
const app = express();
app.use(logger(app, { key: 'YOUR_INSTRUMENTATION_KEY' }));
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.locals.logger.trackEvent('page', {
val: 'extra information',
requestId: res.locals.requestId
});
res.send('hello world');
});
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
Keep in mind that the requestId
is not required, it is provided as a convenience to correlate logs for request.
Logging can also be done outside the HTTP Request context. For that use the app.locals.logger
object:
import * as express from 'express';
import { logger } from 'appinsights-express-middleware';
export const app = express();
app.use(logger(app, { key: 'YOUR_INSTRUMENTATION_KEY' }));
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});
import { app } from './app';
import * as http from 'http';
const server = http.createServer(app);
const errorHandler = error => {
app.locals.logger.traceError(error, 'Error during startup.');
}
const listeningHandler = () => {
app.locals.logger.traceInfo('Server listening.', {
port: server.address().port
});
}
server.on('error', errorHandler);
server.on('listening', listeningHandler);
traceInfo(message: string, properties?: {[key: string]: string}): void;
traceError(error: Error, message: string, properties?: {[key: string]: string}): void;
traceWarning(message: string, properties?: {[key: string]: string}): void;
traceVerbose(message: string, properties?: {[key: string]: string}): void;
traceCritical(message: string, properties?: {[key: string]: string});
trackEvent(name: string, properties?: {[key: string]: string}): void;
trackMetric(name: string, value: number): void;
trackRequest(req: express.Request, res: express.Response): void
FAQs
Middleware for handling Microsoft Application Insights inside an express application.
The npm package appinsights-express-middleware receives a total of 32 weekly downloads. As such, appinsights-express-middleware popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that appinsights-express-middleware 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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