I cannot make winston logger to write logs to stackdriver console. I deploy my functions as google firebase functions (using firebase deploy
). console
logging works fine, but we don't use such tool in the project.
What I tried:
- output to stderr using https://github.com/greglearns/winston-stderr
- using https://www.npmjs.com/package/@google-cloud/logging-winston (both
winston.add(require('@google-cloud/logging-winston')); winston.log('error', 'Winston error!');
and also adding with parameters such as project ID projectId
/ service account JSON credentials file keyFilename
);
- using https://github.com/findanyemail/winston-transport-stackdriver-error-reporting . Also no luck. I still cannot see logs in stackdriver.
Please suggest... I'm tired of experiments (each re-deploy takes time)
Finally what I did - implemented custom transport which actually calls console.log
under the hood. This helped.
const winston = require('winston');
const util = require('util');
const ClassicConsoleLoggerTransport = winston.transports.CustomLogger = function (options) {
options = options || {};
this.name = 'ClassicConsoleLoggerTransport';
this.level = options.level || 'info';
// Configure your storage backing as you see fit
};
util.inherits(ClassicConsoleLoggerTransport, winston.Transport);
ClassicConsoleLoggerTransport.prototype.log = function (level, msg, meta, callback) {
let args = [msg, '---', meta];
switch (level) {
case 'verbose':
case 'debug':
console.log.apply(null, args);
break;
case 'notice':
case 'info':
console.info.apply(null, args);
break;
case 'warn':
case 'warning':
console.warn.apply(null, args);
break;
case 'error':
case 'crit':
case 'alert':
case 'emerg':
console.error.apply(null, args);
break;
default:
console.log.apply(null, args);
}
callback(null, true);
};
Winston's default Console transport fails because it uses console._stdout.write
when it's available, which is not accepted by Firebase Functions.
There's now a Google Cloud transport package for Stackdriver you can try. Haven't used it and it requires node ^8.11.2
if you're using Winston 3.