In any production system, server logs are an integral part of monitoring and troubleshooting a live running system. For Node applications, this is no different. There are a couple of handy modules that we will take a quick look at to enhance our server logging so that it can be more useful in a production setting.
The first module is named rotating-file-stream, and will rotate logs on the server according to a configurable set of rules. When logging in a production environment, we need to take care that server logs do not get too large, otherwise we could run the risk of running out of disk space. With a rotating log, a new file will be created after a period of time, with a new name, and the maximum size of log files can be ...
