What logging libraries do people like?
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thdxr
08/29/2021, 7:17 PMWhat logging libraries do people like?
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Omi Chowdhury
08/29/2021, 7:19 PMBeen using bunyan for years…haven’t had any complaints
Omi Chowdhury
08/29/2021, 7:21 PMFor local dev I usually turn logs off, but when I need to inspect them, I pipe them into https://github.com/gistia/json-log-viewer via a fifo pipe
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Ross Coundon
08/29/2021, 7:33 PMPretty simple but this works https://www.npmjs.com/package/lambda-log
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thdxr
08/29/2021, 8:00 PMso both of you using json logs - where do you view them? Are you just using cloudwatch? Or another service
thdxr
08/29/2021, 8:00 PMI've never really landed on a logging service I liked / learned enough
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Omi Chowdhury
08/29/2021, 8:03 PMYeah I “get by” with cloudwatch, it’s gotten a bit better now but it’s a pain to use its json filtering syntax
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Ross Coundon
08/29/2021, 9:24 PMEpsagon for us
Ross Coundon
08/29/2021, 9:26 PMWhich,for the logs themselves, is a window to cloudwatch but the trace visibility gives excellent context
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JP (junaway)
09/06/2021, 3:50 PMWhat about pino (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pino) ?