Variable Program String

[phuze]

I'm looking to pass an additional string along with each log message so as to dynamically define the program. Any suggestions how could I go about doing that?

Example:

var winston = require('winston');
require('winston-papertrail').Papertrail;

var winstonPapertrail = new winston.transports.Papertrail({
    host: 'logs12345.papertrailapp.com',
    port: 12345,
    program: 'PINEAPPLES_ARE_BLUE'
});

var logger = new winston.Logger({ transports: [winstonPapertrail] });

logger.info('This is my log message', 'PINEAPPLES_ARE_BLUE');

[phuze]

Thanks to help from the Papertrail team, they recommended trying to set the program name as such:

winstonPapertrail.program = 'PINEAPPLES_ARE_BLUE'

Success! Based on this, I opted to implement a wrapper function to accomplish my goal of variably setting the program name.

// papertrail remote logging
var winston = require('winston');
require('winston-papertrail').Papertrail;

var winstonPapertrail = new winston.transports.Papertrail({
    host: 'logs12345.papertrailapp.com',
    port: 12345,
    colorize: true
});

var winstonLogger = new winston.Logger({ transports: [winstonPapertrail] });

function logger(programName, message) {
    winstonPapertrail.program = programName;
    winstonLogger.info(message);
}

I then simply create log lines like this:

logger('program name 1', 'some message')
logger('program name 2', 'another message')
etc...