bunyan-cloudant

This is a bunyan plugin for Cloudant. It allows you to 'stream' your bunyan logs to Cloudant.

A "stream" is Bunyan's name for where it outputs log messages

Install

npm install bunyan-cloudant

Usage

const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const CloudantStream = require('bunyan-cloudant');

const cloudantStream = new CloudantStream({
  cloudant: {
    url: process.env.COUCHDB_URL
  },
  dbName: 'server-logs'
});

export const L = bunyan.createLogger({
  name: 'my-app',
  streams: [{
    stream: process.stdout // stream to stdout
  }, {
    stream: cloudantStream // and stream to cloudant
  }]
});

Options

CloudantStream takes the following options

{
  cloudant: { // required
    uri: 'http://user:pass@www.cloudant.com'
  },
  dbName: 'logs', // required
  log: myParentBunyanLogger // optional
}

Required Props

The cloudant property (required) must conform to cloudant's Initialization object. See the Initialize section.

The dbName property (required) is the name Cloudant datbase that to 'stream' logs

The log property (optional) specifies a parent Bunyan logger

LICENSE

Apache 2.0