API

The library exposes a function to write directly to DataDog from your own application. The example below shows how this can be done using pino-multi-stream.

Example:

const datadog = require('pino-datadog')
const pinoms = require('pino-multi-stream')
// create the datadog destination stream
const writeStream = await datadog.createWriteStream()
// create pino logger
const logger = pinoms({ streams: [{ stream: writeStream }] })
// log some events
logger.info('Informational message')
logger.error(new Error('things got bad'), 'error message')

Functions

createWriteStream

The createWriteStream function creates a writestream that pino-multi-stream can use to send logs to. *This function is async because of compatibility reasons

Example:

const writeStream = await datadog.createWriteStream({
  apiKey: 'blablabla',
  size: 10
})

createWriteStreamSync

The createWriteStreamSync function creates a writestream that pino-multi-stream can use to send logs to.

Example:

const writeStream = datadog.createWriteStreamSync({ apiKey: 'blablabla', size: 10 })

apiKey

Type: String (required)

The API key that can be found in your DataDog account (Integration > APIs).

size

Type: String (optional)

The number of log messages to send as a single batch (defaults to 1).

ddsource

Type: String (optional)

Set a default source to all the logs sent to datadog

ddtags

Type: String (optional)

Set a default list of tags for all the logs sent to datadog

service

Type: String (optional)

Set a default service to all the logs sent to datadog

hostname

Type: String (optional)

Set a default hostname to all the logs sent to datadog

keepMsg

Type: Boolean (optional)

Keep the msg attribute in the log record. Used to allow a Datadog facet on the message.