Node Cookbook - Third Edition

JSON logging with pino-debug

The pino-debug module passes debug messages through pino so that log output is in newline-delimited JSON (a common logging format which offers a good compromise between machine and human readability).

About pinopino is a high performance logger, that's up to 8-9 times faster than other popular loggers (see the benchmarks at: https://github.com/pinojs/pino#benchmarks for more information). For more information about pino visit https://www.npmjs.com/package/pino.

Due to the performant techniques used by pino, using pino-debug leads to a performance increase in log writing (and therefore leaves more room for other in-process activities such as serving requests) even though there's more output per log message!

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