fast-file-rotate

A performant file transport providing daily log rotation for winston.

Install

npm install fast-file-rotate

Example

const FileRotateTransport = require('fast-file-rotate');
const winston = require('winston');

const logger = winston.createLogger({
  transports: [
    new FileRotateTransport({
      fileName: __dirname + '/console%DATE%.log',
      dateFormat: 'DDMMYYYY'
    })
  ]
})

API

FileRotateTransport(options)

fileName

The name of the log file(s). Must contain a %DATE% placeholder.

dateFormat (optional)

The format of the date that will replace the placeholder %DATE% in the file name. Defaults to DDMMYYYY.
Supports all formating options of fast-date-format.

bufferSize (optional)

The size of the internal buffer that is used to store the logs before writing them to the file. Defaults to 4096.

Benchmark

The benchmark compares to the winston-daily-rotate-file module:

benchFastFileRotate*10000: 175.397ms
benchWinstonDailyRotateFile*10000: 580.341ms
benchFastFileRotate*10000: 141.746ms
benchWinstonDailyRotateFile*10000: 545.736ms

License

MIT