express-request-logs

express-request-logs

Configurable Express middleware for logging HTTP requests using Winston backend.

Installation

$ npm install express-request-logs

Example

Simple usage

const express = require('express'),
	winston = require('winston'),
	requestLogger = require('express-request-logs');

const winstonLogger = new (winston.Logger)(
		transports: [new (winston.transports.Console)()]
	);
	
const app = express();

app.use(requestLogger.create(winstonLogger));

This will produce logs similar to:

info: HTTP remoteIP=127.0.0.1, status=200, method=GET, responseTime=12ms, url=/, userAgent=Chrome 54.0.2840 / Mac OS X 10.11.6

Custom format and plugins example

app.use(requestLogger.create(winstonLogger, {
	plugins: {
		user: ({req, res, startTime}) => req.user ? req.user.name : null
	},
	format: ({user, remoteIP, method, url, responseTime}) =>
		`HTTP ${user ? user + '@' : ''}${remoteIP} ${method} ${url} took=${responseTime}`
}));

This will produce logs similar to:

info: HTTP karol@127.0.0.1 GET / took=11ms

API

requestLogger.create(winstonLogger, options);

Where options are one of:

• format - function(object.<string, string>)|array - A function which will transform fields provided by plugins into a log string. When called with array it will enable given fields.

  options.format = function(fields) { return 'ip=' + fields['ip']; };
  options.format = ['remoteIP', 'status', 'method', 'responseTime', 'url'];
  

• plugins - object.<string, function({req: object, res: object, startDate: Date})> - User defined plugins

  options.plugins = {
  	user: function(env) {
  		return env.req.user ? env.req.user.name : null;
  	}
  }
  

• severity - function({req: object, res: object, startDate: Date}) - Enables user to customize Winston logging severity based on request environment

  options.severity = function(env) {
  	if (res.statusCode < 400)
  		return 'info';
  
  	if (res.statusCode < 500)
  		return 'warn';
  
  	return 'error';
  }
  

Shipped plugins

• remoteIP - client IP address

• status - HTTP status

• method - request HTTP method

• responseTime - time consumed while processing request

• url - request url (with query params)

• userAgent - user agent information

Author

Karol Maciaszek [e-mail]

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2016 Karol Maciaszek [e-mail]

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