Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Adding logging to Hapi

For high performance logging in Hapi, there's the hapi-pino plugin.

Let's copy the hapi-views folder from the There's more... section of the Adding a view layer recipe, and call it hapi-logging and install the pino and hapi-pino modules:

$ cp -fr adding-a-view-layer/hapi-views hapi-logging
$ cd hapi-logging
$ npm install --save pino hapi-pino
  

Near the top of our index.js file we'll require and instantiate pino, and load the hapi-pino plugin:

const pino = require('pino')() 
const hapiPino = require('hapi-pino') 

Next we'll add the logger to our plugins (both development and production plugins):

const plugins = dev ? [{ register: hapiPino, options: {instance: pino} }, vision, inert] : [{ register: hapiPino, options: {instance: ...