![banner](pino-banner.png) # pino [![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/pino)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pino) [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/pinojs/pino/ci.yml)](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/actions) [![js-standard-style](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg?style=flat)](https://standardjs.com/) [Very low overhead](#low-overhead) Node.js logger. ## Documentation * [Benchmarks ⇗](/docs/benchmarks.md) * [API ⇗](/docs/api.md) * [Browser API ⇗](/docs/browser.md) * [Redaction ⇗](/docs/redaction.md) * [Child Loggers ⇗](/docs/child-loggers.md) * [Transports ⇗](/docs/transports.md) * [Web Frameworks ⇗](/docs/web.md) * [Pretty Printing ⇗](/docs/pretty.md) * [Asynchronous Logging ⇗](/docs/asynchronous.md) * [Ecosystem ⇗](/docs/ecosystem.md) * [Help ⇗](/docs/help.md) * [Long Term Support Policy ⇗](/docs/lts.md) ## Install Using NPM: ``` $ npm install pino ``` Using YARN: ``` $ yarn add pino ``` If you would like to install pino v6, refer to https://github.com/pinojs/pino/tree/v6.x. ## Usage ```js const logger = require('pino')() logger.info('hello world') const child = logger.child({ a: 'property' }) child.info('hello child!') ``` This produces: ``` {"level":30,"time":1531171074631,"msg":"hello world","pid":657,"hostname":"Davids-MBP-3.fritz.box"} {"level":30,"time":1531171082399,"msg":"hello child!","pid":657,"hostname":"Davids-MBP-3.fritz.box","a":"property"} ``` For using Pino with a web framework see: * [Pino with Fastify](docs/web.md#fastify) * [Pino with Express](docs/web.md#express) * [Pino with Hapi](docs/web.md#hapi) * [Pino with Restify](docs/web.md#restify) * [Pino with Koa](docs/web.md#koa) * [Pino with Node core `http`](docs/web.md#http) * [Pino with Nest](docs/web.md#nest) ## Essentials ### Development Formatting The [`pino-pretty`](https://github.com/pinojs/pino-pretty) module can be used to format logs during development: ![pretty demo](pretty-demo.png) ### Transports & Log Processing Due to Node's single-threaded event-loop, it's highly recommended that sending, alert triggering, reformatting, and all forms of log processing are conducted in a separate process or thread. In Pino terminology, we call all log processors "transports" and recommend that the transports be run in a worker thread using our `pino.transport` API. For more details see our [Transports⇗](docs/transports.md) document. ### Low overhead Using minimum resources for logging is very important. Log messages tend to get added over time and this can lead to a throttling effect on applications – such as reduced requests per second. In many cases, Pino is over 5x faster than alternatives. See the [Benchmarks](docs/benchmarks.md) document for comparisons. ### Bundling support Pino supports being bundled using tools like webpack or esbuild. See [Bundling](docs/bundling.md) document for more information. ## The Team ### Matteo Collina ### David Mark Clements ### James Sumners ### Thomas Watson Steen ## Contributing Pino is an **OPEN Open Source Project**. This means that: > Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project. See the [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) file for more details. ## Acknowledgments This project was kindly sponsored by [nearForm](https://nearform.com). Logo and identity designed by Cosmic Fox Design: https://www.behance.net/cosmicfox. ## License Licensed under [MIT](./LICENSE). [elasticsearch]: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch [kibana]: https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana

	Stars	Issues	Version	Updated	Created
log4js	5,756	90	6.9.1	a year ago	13 years ago
node-loggly-bulk			4.0.1	a year ago	8 years ago
npmlog			7.0.1	2 years ago	12 years ago
pino	13,323	109	9.0.0	16 days ago	8 years ago
winston			3.13.0	2 months ago	13 years ago

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