winston-redis

A capped Redis transport for winston.

Usage

  var winston = require('winston');
  
  //
  // Requiring `winston-redis` will expose 
  // `winston.transports.Redis`
  //
  require('winston-redis').Redis;
  
  winston.add(winston.transports.Redis, options);

This transport accepts the options accepted by the node-redis client:

• host: (Default localhost) Remote host of the Redis server
• port: (Default 6379) Port the Redis server is running on.
• auth: (Default None) Password set on the Redis server

In addition to these, the Redis transport also accepts the following options.

• length: (Default 200) Number of log messages to store.
• container: (Default winston) Name of the Redis container you wish your logs to be in.
• channel: (Default None) Name of the Redis channel to stream logs from.
• meta: (Default {}) Custom fields to add to each log.

Metadata: Logged as JSON literal in Redis

Installation

Installing npm (node package manager)

  $ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Installing winston-redis

  $ npm install winston
  $ npm install winston-redis

Run Tests

All of the winston tests are written in vows, and designed to be run with npm.

  npm test

Author: Charlie Robbins