Pino is a very low overhead Node.js logger, which is inspired by Bunyan. It is designed to be as minimal as possible and to perform logging tasks with a very small performance overhead. Pino provides a simple to use API for structured logging and can be easily integrated with different transports for log processing.
Basic Logging
This feature allows you to perform basic logging tasks, such as logging informational messages.
const pino = require('pino');
const logger = pino();
logger.info('Hello, this is an info message!');Logging with Different Levels
Pino allows you to log messages with different severity levels, such as error, warn, and debug.
const logger = pino();
logger.error('This is an error message');
logger.warn('This is a warning message');
logger.debug('This is a debug message');Child Loggers
You can create child loggers from a parent logger, which can inherit the configuration of the parent and can also have additional properties.
const parentLogger = pino();
const childLogger = parentLogger.child({ a: 'property' });
childLogger.info('Hello from child logger');Custom Serializers
Pino allows you to define custom serializers for logging objects in a specific way.
const logger = pino({
serializers: {
req: (req) => ({ method: req.method, url: req.url })
}
});
logger.info({ req: requestObject }, 'Request log message');Pretty Printing
For development purposes, Pino can be combined with the 'pino-pretty' module to format logs in a more readable way.
const pino = require('pino');
const pretty = require('pino-pretty');
const logger = pino(pretty());
logger.info('This will be pretty printed');Winston is a multi-transport async logging library for Node.js. It is designed to be a simple and universal logging library with support for multiple transports. Compared to Pino, Winston is more feature-rich and configurable but can be heavier on performance.
Bunyan is a simple and fast JSON logging library for Node.js services. Like Pino, it is inspired by the Unix philosophy and focuses on structured logging. Bunyan is more similar to Pino in terms of philosophy, but Pino claims to be faster and more efficient.
Log4js is a logging framework for Node.js, which provides flexible configuration and supports multiple appenders. It is similar to the Log4j library for Java. Compared to Pino, Log4js offers more traditional logging features but may not be as performance-optimized.
Very low overhead Node.js logger.
This README and linked documentation covers pino v6.x, you can find all related docs in: https://github.com/pinojs/pino/tree/v6.x.
$ npm install pino@six
const logger = require('pino')()
logger.info('hello world')
const child = logger.child({ a: 'property' })
child.info('hello child!')
This produces:
{"level":30,"time":1531171074631,"msg":"hello world","pid":657,"hostname":"Davids-MBP-3.fritz.box"}
{"level":30,"time":1531171082399,"msg":"hello child!","pid":657,"hostname":"Davids-MBP-3.fritz.box","a":"property"}
For using Pino with a web framework see:
httpThe pino-pretty module can be used to
format logs during development:
Due to Node's single-threaded event-loop, it's highly recommended that sending, alert triggering, reformatting and all forms of log processing is conducted in a separate process. In Pino parlance we call all log processors "transports", and recommend that the transports be run as separate processes, piping the stdout of the application to the stdin of the transport.
For more details see our Transports⇗ document.
Using minimum resources for logging is very important. Log messages tend to get added over time and this can lead to a throttling effect on applications – such as reduced requests per second.
In many cases, Pino is over 5x faster than alternatives.
See the Benchmarks document for comparisons.
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Pino is an OPEN Open Source Project. This means that:
Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.
See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more details.
This project was kindly sponsored by nearForm.
Logo and identity designed by Cosmic Fox Design: https://www.behance.net/cosmicfox.
Licensed under MIT.
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The npm package pino receives a total of 7,952,366 weekly downloads. As such, pino popularity was classified as popular.
We found that pino demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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