Bunyan
a simple and fast JSON logging module for node.js services (by trentm)
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🌲 super fast, all natural json logger (by pinojs)
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Bunyan | pino | |
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12 | 38 | |
7,128 | 13,221 | |
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0.0 | 8.6 | |
7 months ago | 4 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Bunyan
Posts with mentions or reviews of Bunyan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
- Structured Logging with Slog
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Logging in your API
NodeJS -> Pino, Winston, Bunyan, Npmlog, e.t.c.
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7 Best Node.js Logging Libraries for Your Next Projects
Bunyan is also another popular and fast JSON Node.js logging library. Just like Winston, it also supports logging into multiple transport options. Other features include a neat-printing CLI for logs, a log filter, serializers for rendering objects, snooping system, and the ability to support multiple runtime environments such as NW.js and WebPack. Bunyan enforces the JSON format for logs.
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Node.js: How to Power Up Your Logging
bunyan argues that logs should be structured and that JSON is a good format for that. It describes itself as a “simple and fast JSON logging library” and has all the features you would expect from a logging library, including serializers and support for different runtime environments including Node.js, Browserify and Webpack.
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Understanding the dependency inversion principle in TypeScript
Suppose that after some time you decide that the winston logger library was not the best logger for your project and you want to use Bunyan, what do you do? You just need to create a BunyanLogger class that implements the ILogger interface and it is ready to be used by the UserService.
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Patterns and Anti-patterns in Node.js
Bunyan: Another popular logging library that outputs in JSON by default.
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Top 15 libraries you should use for every Node Express backend project.
bunyan
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Designing Error Messages and a Logging Strategy in Node.js
Are there more options? Absolutely: Bunyan, Pino, and others. It depends on what your particular logging needs are.
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Open Sourcing URL Shortener
With the increasing number of requests and possibly errors, we needed a proper logging setup to debug and monitor the service. That’s why we chose bunyan to log insightful data in our application. These logs sit conveniently on our new logging pipeline running on EFK (or, Elasticsearch Fluentd Kibana) stack. While this deserves a separate blog post on its own, let’s take a brief look at how the logs travel from our application to the kibana dashboard.
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Best Practices for Logging in Node.js
Bunyan — Another feature-rich logging framework that outputs in JSON by default and provides a CLI tool for viewing your logs.
pino
Posts with mentions or reviews of pino.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
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Migrate Your Express Application to Fastify
Learn more about logging in Fastify and how to customize the Pino logger.
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Logs monitoring with Loki, Node.js and Fastify.js
The Fastify framework includes the Pino logger by default (a really great logger with lots of cool features that doesn't compromise on performance). The framework itself allows a lot of really cool stuff, like controlling the level of logs at runtime.
- Advice on Node Logging to Google Cloud Platform
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Getting Started with Fastify for Node.js
Fastify provides a built-in logging mechanism based on Pino that allows you to capture various events in your applications. Once enabled, Fastify logs all incoming requests to the server and errors that occur while processing said requests. It also provides a convenient way to log custom messages through the log() method on the Fastify instance or the request object.
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10 Powerful Node.js Libraries Every Developer Should Know About
1. pino
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Node.js 20 Released: Experimental Perms, new V8, and Single Executable Apps
Vitest is for frontend. Jest is not good for backend (I don’t like it for frontend either), take a look at this issue.
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What is the preferred stack for managing medium to large-size logs?
Have a look at https://github.com/pinojs/pino
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Logging in your API
NodeJS -> Pino, Winston, Bunyan, Npmlog, e.t.c.
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Logging practices
Use a configurable logger like pino
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Logging - correlationId - headers - how?
Using pino as a logger, for every request on the _server_ , a unique ID generated client side in the headers, so a log may be something like:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Bunyan and pino you can also consider the following projects:
winston - A logger for just about everything.
console-log-level - The most simple logger imaginable
tracer for node.js - A powerful and customizable logging library for node.js
log4js-node - A port of log4js to node.js
storyboard - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories
winston-daily-rotate-file - A transport for winston which logs to a rotating file each day.
opentelemetry-specification - Specifications for OpenTelemetry
log-process-errors - Show some ❤️ to Node.js process errors