Effective DevOps with AWS

Changing the logging transport to send logs to Firehose

Our logging library, Winston, has a system to extend some of its functionalities, including its transport system. We will install a new transport system that can talk to Kinesis Firehose.

In your terminal, go to the root directory of your helloworld application and run the following command:

$ npm install winston-firehose@1.0.6 --save --save-exact  

This will install specifically version 1.0.6 of the winston-firehose package and update the package.json accordingly. We need to enforce this version, because our EC2 instance is running an old version of Node.js.

Then, open the helloworld.js file with your code editor.

After the declaration of our winston variable, we will define a new variable ...