https://github.com/pinojs/express-pino-logger

🌲 an express middleware to log with pino
https://github.com/pinojs/express-pino-logger

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🌲 an express middleware to log with pino

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pinojs/express-pino-logger
• Owner: pinojs
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2016-03-31T09:45:46.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-15T12:41:35.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-08T14:48:41.216Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 68.4 KB
• Stars: 199
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 13
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# express-pino-logger

This repo exists only to help people understand that [pino-http](https://github.com/pinojs/pino-http) works seamlessly with [express](http://npm.im/express). To our knowledge, `pino-http` is the [fastest express](#benchmarks) logger in town.

## Benchmarks

Benchmarks log each request/response pair while returning

`'hello world'`, using

[autocannon](https://github.com/mcollina/autocannon) with 100

connections and 10 pipelined requests (`autocannon -c 100 -p 10 http://localhost:3000`).

* `express-bunyan-logger`: 2702 req/sec

* `express-winston`: 5953 req/sec

* `morgan`: 8570 req/sec

* `pino-http`: 9807 req/sec

* `pino-http` (extreme): 10407 req/sec

* `pino-http` (without express): 22240.73 req/seq

* `pino-http` (without express and extreme): 25536 req/sec

All benchmarks where taken on a Macbook Pro 2013 (2.6GHZ i7, 16GB of RAM).

Whilst we're comparing `pino-http` against [morgan](http://npm.im/morgan), this isn't really a fair contest.

Morgan doesn't support logging arbitrary data, nor does it output JSON. Further Morgan [uses a form of `eval`](https://github.com/expressjs/morgan/blob/5da5ff1f5446e3f3ff29d29a2d6582712612bf89/index.js#L383) to achieve high speed logging. Whilst probably safe, using `eval` at all tends to cause concern, particular when it comes to server-side JavaScript.

The fact that `pino-http` achieves higher throughput with JSON logging **and** arbitrary data, without using `eval`, serves to emphasise the high-speed capabilities of `pino-http`.

With `pino-http` you can have features, safety **and** speed.