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https://github.com/KyleRoss/node-lambda-log

Basic logging mechanism for Node.js Lambda Functions and other AWS services, which produces logs in JSON format for easier reading through Cloudwatch Logs.
https://github.com/KyleRoss/node-lambda-log

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Basic logging mechanism for Node.js Lambda Functions and other AWS services, which produces logs in JSON format for easier reading through Cloudwatch Logs.

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# lambda-log

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LambdaLog is a [Node.js package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/lambda-log) facilitates and enforces logging standards in Node.js processes or applications **anywhere** by formatting your log messages as JSON for simple parsing and filtering within log management tools, such as CloudWatch Logs. _Works with all of the supported versions of Node.js on Lambda._

Originally created for AWS Lambda Functions, LambdaLog is a lightweight and feature-rich library that has **no** dependency on AWS or Lambda, meaning you can use it in any type of Node.js project you wish. **It's really a universal JSON logger.**

**Why another lambda logger?**
There are plenty of other logging libraries in the NPM ecosystem but most are convoluted, included more functionality than needed, not maintained, or are not configurable enough. I created LambdaLog to include the important functionality from other loggers, but still maintaining simplicity with minimal dependencies.

### Features

Anyone can log JSON to the `console`, but with Lambda Log you also get:

- Metadata and tags that may be set globally or individually for each log message.
- Error and Error-like objects logged include stacktraces in the metadata automatically.
- Each log message emits an event to allow third-party integration.
- Pluggable and customizable by extending the LambdaLog class.
- Pretty-printing of the JSON log message in dev mode.
- Well documented, commented, and maintained source code.
- Over 1.5 million downloads and more than 35k weekly downloads.
- Small footprint.

#### New in Version 3.0.0

Version 3.0.0 of Lambda Log brings a bunch of changes, new features, and a [new website](https://lambdalog.dev).

**Broad Changes:**

* Refactor all code to meet new ESLint specifications and to stay up-to-date with newer ecmascript specifications.
* New website with better documentation.
* Tests are now using Jest instead of Mocha.
* Switched from TravisCI to Github Actions.

**New Features:**

- Added `levelKey` configuration option to be able to change the key name for log levels.
- Added `messageKey` configuration option to be able to change the key name for log messages.
- Added `tagsKey` configuration option to be able to change the key name for tags.
- Added ability to remove log level and tags from the outputted log JSON.
- Added `addLevel()` method to quickly add a custom log level to an instance of LambdaLog.
- Tags can now be functions that return a dynamic tag for log messages.
- Tags now have variable support.
- Tags that are `null`, `undefined` or `""` are now removed from the tags array.
- Metadata that contains `Error` objects are now automatically converted to a plain object.

**Breaking Changes:**

- All of the private properties of both the LambdaLog and LogMessage classes are stored using Symbols. This may break some advanced uses of Lambda Log from version 2.
- Tags no longer contain any default, built-in tags and are empty by default.
- Some of the properties of LogMessage have been moved from the constructor to their own getter functions.

## Documentation

Documentation for Lambda Log has moved to our [new website](https://lambdalog.dev).

## Tests

See [Development Documentation](https://lambdalog.dev/docs/latest/development).

## Contributing

See [Contributing Documentation](https://lambdalog.dev/docs/latest/contributing).

## License

MIT License. See [License](https://github.com/KyleRoss/node-lambda-log/blob/master/LICENSE) in the repository.

## Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key)):



Kyle Ross

💻 📖 🚧

Jonathan Goldwasser

💻 🐛

Gabriel

🤔

sh1n1chi8acker

🐛

Matt Nagi

📖

nickcox

📖

Tim Schmidt

💻



Marius Tolzmann

🐛

AndresQ

🤔

Mike Fogel

🤔

This project follows the [all-contributors](https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!