How can I add timestamp to logs using Node.js library Winston?
Solution 1:
I was dealing with the same issue myself. There are two ways I was able to do this.
When you include Winston, it usually defaults to adding a Console transport. In order to get timestamps to work in this default case, I needed to either:
- Remove the console transport and add again with the timestamp option.
- Create your own Logger object with the timestamp option set to true.
The first:
var winston = require('winston');
winston.remove(winston.transports.Console);
winston.add(winston.transports.Console, {'timestamp':true});
The second, and cleaner option:
var winston = require('winston');
var logger = new (winston.Logger)({
transports: [
new (winston.transports.Console)({'timestamp':true})
]
});
Some of the other options for Console transport can be found here:
- level: Level of messages that this transport should log (default 'debug').
- silent: Boolean flag indicating whether to suppress output (default false).
- colorize: Boolean flag indicating if we should colorize output (default false).
- timestamp: Boolean flag indicating if we should prepend output with timestamps (default false). If function is specified, its return value will be used instead of timestamps.
Solution 2:
Above answers did not work for me. In case you are trying to add timestamp to your logs using the latest version of Winston - 3.0.0-rc1, this worked like charm:
const {transports, createLogger, format} = require('winston');
const logger = createLogger({
format: format.combine(
format.timestamp(),
format.json()
),
transports: [
new transports.Console(),
new transports.File({filename: 'logs/error/error.log', level: 'error'}),
new transports.File({filename: 'logs/activity/activity.log', level:'info'})
]
});
I used 'format.combine()'. Since I needed timestamp on all my transports, I added the formatting option within the createLogger, rather than inside each transport. My output on console and on file (activity.log) are as follows:
{"message":"Connected to mongodb","level":"info","timestamp":"2018-02-01T22:35:27.758Z"}
{"message":"Connected to mongodb","level":"info","timestamp":"2018-02-01T22:35:27.758Z"}
We can add formatting to this timestamp in 'format.combine()' as usual using:
format.timestamp({format:'MM-YY-DD'})
Solution 3:
We can do like this also
var winston = require('winston');
const { createLogger, format, transports } = require('winston');
var config = require('../configurations/envconfig.js');
var loggerLevel = process.env.LOGGERLEVEL || config.get('LOGGERLEVEL');
var logger = winston.createLogger({
format: format.combine(
format.timestamp({
format: 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'
}),
format.printf(info => `${info.timestamp} ${info.level}: ${info.message}`+(info.splat!==undefined?`${info.splat}`:" "))
),
transports: [
new (winston.transports.Console)({ level: loggerLevel }),
]
});
module.exports = logger;
Solution 4:
You can use built-in util and forever to achieve logging with timestap for your nodejs server. When you start a server add log output as part of the parameter:
forever start -ao log/out.log server.js
And then you can write util in your server.js
server.js
var util = require('util');
util.log("something with timestamp");
The output will look something like this to out.log file:
out.log
15 Mar 15:09:28 - something with timestamp