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log4js-memory-appender
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A simple memory appender for log4js. It stores log events in an array - good for keeping a buffer of tail logs to output on a diagnostics page.
A simple memory appender for log4js. It stores log events in an array - good for keeping a buffer of tail logs to output on a diagnostics page. The latest version has been modified to support Log4js version 6 and above. Please note, from version 6 all appenders need to be defined in config and cannot be progammatically instantiated and configured. Because of this, log4js-memory-appender can no longer be passed a buffer to use and can only use its own internal array as a buffer.
npm install log4js-memory-appender
"log4js" : {
"level": "ALL",
"appenders" : {
"console" : { "type": "console", "timezoneOffset": 0 },
"file" : { "type": "file", "filename": "logs/gallop.log", "maxLogSize": 1024000, "timezoneOffset": 0, "backups": 50 },
"memory" : { "type": "log4js-memory-appender", "maxBufferSize": 100, "timezoneOffset": 0 }
},
"categories" : {
"default": { "appenders": ["console", "file", "memory"], "level": "ALL" }
}
}
var log4js = require('log4js');
var memAppender = require('log4js-memory-appender');
var log4jsLogger = null;
log4js.configure(config.log4js);
logger = log4js.getLogger("App Name");
// set the initial level, as newer versions of log4js are set to OFF by default
log4jsLogger.level = gallopConfig.log4js.level;
logger.trace('trace');
logger.debug('debug');
logger.info('info');
logger.warn('warn');
var error = new Error('test');
error.code = 'fatal';
logger.error(error);
logger.fatal('fatal');
logger.mark('mark');
// set the buffer size later instead of configuration via an exported function on the appender definition
memAppender.setMaxBufferSize(1000);
// access the buffer by a function exported on the appender definition
console.log(memAppender.getBuffer());
// flush the buffer using a function exported on the appender definition
console.log(memAppender.flushBuffer());
var log4js = require('log4js');
var appender = require('log4js-memory-appender');
var buffer = [];
var maxBufferSize = 100;
log4js.loadAppender('memory', appender({ buffer : buffer, maxBufferSize : maxBufferSize }));
log4js.addAppender(log4js.appenders.memory());
var logger = log4js.getLogger();
logger.trace('trace');
logger.debug('debug');
logger.info('info');
logger.warn('warn');
var error = new Error('test');
error.code = 'fatal';
logger.error(error);
logger.fatal('fatal');
logger.mark('mark');
console.log(buffer);
// OR
var log4js = require('log4js');
var appender = require('log4js-memory-appender');
var memAppender = appender({ maxBufferSize : 1000 });
log4js.loadAppender('memory', memAppender);
log4js.addAppender(log4js.appenders.memory());
var logger = log4js.getLogger();
logger.trace('trace');
logger.debug('debug');
logger.info('info');
logger.warn('warn');
var error = new Error('test');
error.code = 'fatal';
logger.error(error);
logger.fatal('fatal');
logger.mark('mark');
console.log(memAppender.getBuffer());
console.log("Flushing the buffer.");
memAppender.flushBuffer();
console.log(memAppender.getBuffer());
[
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.080] [TRACE] [default] - trace',
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.086] [DEBUG] [default] - debug',
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.086] [INFO] [default] - info',
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.087] [WARN] [default] - warn',
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.087] [ERROR] [default] - { [Error: test] code: \'fatal\' }\nError: test\n at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/retroburst/Development/log4js-memory-appender/test.js:18:13)\n at Module._compile (module.js:435:26)\n at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)\n at Module.load (module.js:356:32)\n at Function.Module._load (module.js:313:12)\n at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:467:10)\n at startup (node.js:136:18)\n at node.js:963:3',
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.092] [FATAL] [default] - fatal',
'[2016-02-20 11:08:36.092] [MARK] [default] - mark'
]
FAQs
A simple memory appender for log4js. It stores log events in an array - good for keeping a buffer of tail logs to output on a diagnostics page.
The npm package log4js-memory-appender receives a total of 11 weekly downloads. As such, log4js-memory-appender popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that log4js-memory-appender 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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