@yunnysunny/request-logging NPM

request-logging

Print the express request log to console and save it to kafka and mongodb when required, and even can send alram message when the response code greater than 500.

Installation

npm install @yunnysunny/request-logging --save

Usage

const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const requestLog = require('@yunnysunny/request-logging');

const app = express();
app.enable('trust proxy');

// view engine setup
app.set('port', port);
app.use(requestLog());

app.use(bodyParser.json({limit: '1mb'}));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
    extended: false,
    limit: '1mb'
}));

API

See api document.

Fields

If you want to save request logging to mongodb, this is the fields description, which you will used to create a mongoose schema:

name	type	description
hostname	String	The domain of current server.
original_url	String	The original url contains query string.
path	String	The request path doesn't contain query string.
user_agent	String	The user agent.
custom_headers	Object	The specific you wanna save.
method	String	The http request method.
ip	String	The client's ip.
host	String	The server's ip.
duration	Number	The millisecond the request costed.
pid	Number	The server's process id.
req_id	Number	The inner request number, auto increased when new request come.
content_length_req	Number	The content-length of the request headers.
content_length	Number	The content-length of the response headers.
status_code	Number	The status code of current HTTP response.
res_code	Number	The inner response code, which will be got from the response header of `res-code`.
res_data	Object	The reponse data.
req_time	Number	The timestamp of begin time of current request occured.
req_time_string	String	The time of begin time, formated in ISO 8601 Extended Format.
req_data	Object	The request data, which would form query string or form data.
referer	String	The HTTP referer header.
session	Object	The session of current request.
aborted	Boolean	Whether the request has aborted.

We suggest you use such mongoose schema, which is compatible when the fields is changed:

const {Schema} = require('mongoose');

const requestLogSchema =  new Schema({
    req_time: Date
},{ 
    timestamps: {
        createdAt: 'created_at',
        updatedAt : 'updated_at'
    },
    strict: false
});
module.exports = requestLogSchema;