Feature Request: (File) Logger for Nitro

[rrd108]

I'd like to propose a new feature for Nitro: a (file) logger. This would allow developers to record events and data in production for later analysis.

Motivation

Debugging and Monitoring: In production environments, logs are crucial for troubleshooting issues and tracking application behavior. Having a dedicated (file) logger would provide a persistent record of events, making it easier to diagnose problems after the fact.
Task Results: When using Nitro tasks, there's often a need to capture the results and potentially send notifications, such as daily email summaries. A (file) logger would facilitate this by storing task outcomes for later retrieval.

Potential Implementation

Leveraging Nitro's existing KV storage capabilities, the (file) logger could be designed as follows:

New Function: append
This function would add a new log entry to the file without overwriting existing content.

Automatic Timestamping:
Each entry would include a timestamp for easy reference and ordering of events.

Extensibility through KV Storage:
By building upon Nitro's KV storage, the logger could offer flexibility in storage drivers.

I believe a (file) logger would be a valuable addition to Nitro's feature set.

There is already a similar discussion (#334), but that one is focusing on logging HTTP requests, and this one is more general. I guess if we have a solution for this one, it will likely solve that one as well.

[TheAlexLichter]

IMO this could be a simple nitro module for the start, and e.g. leverage hooks and similar to achieve app-wide logging 👍🏻

[rrd108]

As I see nitro modules are similar to nuxt modules - what a nice suprise 😄
Is there a starter template also?

[rrd108]

After checking it again I think the hook based implementation would not serves my goals.
I would like to add log statements at certain points, like we do during development with console.log. Some of them could be implemented at a hook easily, but some of them not really.

For example in my nuxt-api-shield module I would like to log some info if the api calls count reach 100. It could help connect it to fail2ban, analyze it later, etc.

[rrd108]

https://github.com/pinojs/pino/blob/master/docs/web.md#pino-with-h3 can be on option without using KV Storage

[stafyniaksacha]

You can also use consola's custom reporter and mix it with a global nitro middleware, but you won't be able to use unstorage since it does not allow appending content to a file

[rrd108]

but you won't be able to use unstorage since it does not allow appending content to a file

Yep, that is my point. It seems I have to use another package till unstorage has no append feature

[pi0]

in KV, you should append to a bucket like data:logs:[id] instead of appending to the same entry. This also allows pub/sub and processing of the entries easier and safer.

[rrd108]

Yep, that can work, but I can not have all my logs in a single file in this case.

Thanks for your input.

BTW nitro is the most awesome thing I met. 😄