How to use Morgan logger

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I cannot log with Morgan  It doesn t log info to console  The documentation doesn t tell how to use it   I want to see what a variable is  This is a code from response js file of expressjs framework   var logger   require  morgan     res render   function view  options  fn     options   options          var self   this    var req   this req    var app   req app        support callback function as second arg   if   function     typeof options        fn   options  options                 merge res locals   options  locals   self locals        default callback to respond   fn   fn    function err  str       if  err  return req next err       self send str              Here I want to see what fn is      But it doesn t show me anything in console      How to use it    logger fn         render   app render view  options  fn        How to use Morgan

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Seems you too are confused with the same thing as I was, the reason I stumbled upon this question. I think we associate logging with manual logging as we would do in Java with log4j (if you know java) where we instantiate a Logger and say log 'this'.

Then I dug in morgan code, turns out it is not that type of a logger, it is for automated logging of requests, responses and related data. When added as a middleware to an express/connect app, by default it should log statements to stdout showing details of: remote ip, request method, http version, response status, user agent etc. It allows you to modify the log using tokens or add color to them by defining 'dev' or even logging out to an output stream, like a file.

For the purpose we thought we can use it, as in this case, we still have to use:

console.log(..);

Or if you want to make the output pretty for objects:

var util = require("util");
console.log(util.inspect(..));

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In my case   -console log       works -console error      works -app use logger  dev       Morgan is NOT logging requests that look like  GET  myURL 304 9 072 ms - -    FIX  I was using Visual Studio code  and I had to add this to my Launch Config   outputCapture    std    Suggestion  in case you are running from an IDE  run directly from the command line to make sure the IDE is not causing the problem

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You might want to try using mongo-morgan-ext  The usage is   var logger   require  mongo-morgan-ext     var db    mongodb   localhost 27017 MyDB    var collection    Logs   var skipfunction   function req  res     return res statusCode  gt  399      Thiw would skip if HTTP request response is less than 399 i e no errors   app use logger db collection skipfunction      In your express-application   The expected output is         RequestID            status            method            Remote-user            Remote-address            URL            HTTPversion            Response-time            date           Referrer            REQUEST       10          Accept                Accept-Charset                Accept-Encoding                Accept-Language                Authorization                Cache-Control                Connection                Cookie                Content-Length                Content-MD5                Content-Type                Expect                Forwarded                From                Host                Max-Forwards                Origin                Pragma                Proxy-Authorization                Range                TE                User-Agent                Via                Warning                Upgrade                Referer                Date                X-requested-with                X-Csrf-Token                X-UIDH                Proxy-Connection                X-Wap-Profile                X-ATT-DeviceId                X-Http-Method-Override               Front-End-Https                X-Forwarded-Proto                X-Forwarded-Host                X-Forwarded-For                DNT                Accept-Datetime                If-Match                If-Modified-Since                If-None-Match                If-Range                If-Unmodified-Since                  RESPONSE              Status                Content-MD5               X-Frame-Options                Accept-Ranges                Age                Allow                Cache-Control                Connection                Content-Disposition                Content-Encoding                Content-Language                Content-Length                Content-Location                Content-Range                Content-Type               Date               Last-Modified                Link                Location                P3P                Pragma                Proxy-Authenticate                Public-Key-Pins                Retry-After                Server                Trailer                Transfer-Encoding                TSV                Upgrade                Vary                Via                Warning                WWW-Authenticate                Expires                Set-Cookie                Strict-Transport-Security                Refresh               Access-Control-Allow-Origin                X-XSS-Protection                X-WebKit-CSP               X-Content-Security-Policy                Content-Security-Policy                X-Content-Type-Options                X-Powered-By                X-UA-Compatible                X-Content-Duration                Upgrade-Insecure-Requests                X-Request-ID                ETag                Accept-Patch

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I think I have a way where you may not get exactly get what you want  but you can integrate Morgan s logging with log4js -- in other words  all your logging activity can go to the same place  I hope this digest from an Express server is more or less self-explanatory   var express   require  express    var log4js   require  log4js    var morgan   require  morgan        var theAppLog   log4js getLogger    var theHTTPLog   morgan      format    default      stream         write  function str    theAppLog debug str                  var theServer   express    theServer use theHTTPLog     Now you can write whatever you want to theAppLog and Morgan will write what it wants to the same place  using the same appenders etc etc  Of course  you can call info   or whatever you like in the stream wrapper instead of debug   -- that just reflects the logging level you want to give to Morgan s req res logging

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Using morgan is pretty much straightforward  As the documentation suggests  there are different ways to get your desired output with morgan  It comes with  preconfigured logging methods  or you can define one yourself  Eg   const morgan   require  morgan   app use morgan  tiny    This will give you the preconfiguration called tiny  You will notice in your terminal what it does  In case you are not satisfied with this and you want deeper e g  lets say the request url  then this is where tokens come in   morgan token  url   function  req  res   return   api myendpoint      then use it like so   app use morgan    url     Check the documentation its all highlighted there

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I faced the same problem ago and instead  I used winston  As fellas above said  morgan is for automated logging of request response  Winston can be configured pretty much same way as log4Net log4J  has severity levels  different streams to which you can log etc    For example   npm install winston  Then  if you call the below code somewhere on you application initialization   var winston   require  winston        setup default logger  no category  winston loggers add  default         console            colorize   true           handleExceptions  true          json  false          level   silly           label   default              file            filename   some path where the log file reside default log           level   silly           json  false          handleExceptions  true                    setup logger for category  usersessions     you can define as many looggers as you like    winston loggers add  usersessions         console            level   silly           colorize   true           label   usersessions           json  false          handleExceptions  true             file            filename   some path where the log file reside usersessions log           level   silly           json  false          handleExceptions  true               note  before calling above code  winston loggers is empty  i e you dont have any loggers configured yet  Pretty much like Log4Net J XmlConfigure methods - you need to first call them  to init your logging   Then  later wherever in you application server side code you may do   var winston   require  winston       log instances as defined in first snippet var defaultLog   winston loggers get  default     var userSessionsLog   winston loggers get  usersessions     defaultLog info  this goes to file default log    userSessionsLog debug  this goes to file usersessions log     Hope that helps   for further documentation reference  https   www npmjs com package winston

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Morgan  -  Morgan is a middleware which will help us to identify the clients who are accessing our application  Basically a logger   To Use Morgan  We need to follow below steps  -   Install the morgan using below command    npm install --save morgan  This will add morgan to json package file   Include the morgan in your project   var morgan   require  morgan     3     create a write stream  in append mode    var accessLogStream   fs createWriteStream        path join   dirname   access log     flags   a          setup the logger  app use morgan  combined    stream  accessLogStream       Note  Make sure you do not plumb above blindly make sure you have every  conditions where you need    Above will automatically create a access log file to your root once user will access your app

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Morgan should not be used to log in the way you re describing  Morgan was built to do logging in the way that servers like Apache and Nginx log to the error log or access log  For reference  this is how you use morgan   var express       require  express        app           express        morgan        require  morgan       Require morgan before use     You can set morgan to log differently depending on your environment if  app get  env       production       app use morgan  common     skip  function req  res    return res statusCode  lt  400    stream    dirname        morgan log         else     app use morgan  dev         Note the production line where you see morgan called with an options hash  skip       stream    dirname        morgan log    The stream property of that object determines where the logger outputs  By default it s STDOUT  your console  just like you want  but it ll only log request data  It isn t going to do what console log   does   If you want to inspect things on the fly use the built in util library   var util   require  util    console log util inspect anyObject       Will give you more details than console log   So the answer to your question is that you re asking the wrong question  But if you still want to use Morgan for logging requests  there you go

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var express   require  express     var fs   require  fs     var morgan   require  morgan    var app   express        create a write stream  in append mode  var accessLogStream   fs createWriteStream   dirname     access log   flags   a          setup the logger app use morgan  combined    stream  accessLogStream      app get      function  req  res      res send  hello  world          example nodejs   express   morgan

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Just do this  app use morgan  tiny      and it will work

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