Logging in JavaScript

Logging in JavaScript

Step one is to make sure that the right stuff actually is logged. Some thoughts:

• http://raven-js.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Also check out this: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/

Stack traces in any browser: http://www.eriwen.com/javascript/js-stack-trace/

Logging alternatives

Some alternatives:

• http://stacktracejs.com/
• http://rescuejs.com/
• https://github.com/flatiron/winston
• https://github.com/ifit/winston-express
• http://log4js.berlios.de/
• Node version of above - https://github.com/nomiddlename/log4js-node
• http://log4javascript.org/
• http://log4js.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.gscottolson.com/blackbirdjs/
• Advanced platform - https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
• https://getsentry.com/welcome/
• https://github.com/bpaquet/node-logstash

winston together with winston-express could be an alternative for logging from the browser.

Sentry seams like a powerful and interesting alternative, perhaps too powerful?

There are winston transports for some centralized logging services:

• https://github.com/indexzero/winston-loggly
• https://github.com/kenperkins/winston-papertrail
• https://github.com/erichelgeson/winston-splunk
• https://github.com/guzru/winston-sentry
• https://github.com/indexzero/winston-mongodb

Not really JS, but logging:

Open source:

• http://www.logstash.net/
• http://graylog2.org/
• Real time aggregation - https://github.com/facebook/scribe
• https://cwiki.apache.org/FLUME/home.html

Commercial:

• https://crashlog.io
• https://airbrake.io
• http://loggly.com/
• http://www.splunk.com/
• https://papertrailapp.com/
• http://www.cloudpelican.com/

• http://boundary.com/

• https://github.com/basho/riaktant

Some articles:

• https://www.wunki.org/posts/2012-01-19-centralized-logging-with-sentry.html
• https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/logging
• http://devopsangle.com/2012/04/19/8-splunk-alternatives/