How to set log level in Winston/Node.js

Question

I am using Winston logging with my Node.js app and have defined a file transport. Throughout my code, I log using either logger.error, logger.warn, or

Answer 1

Looks like there is a level option in the options passed covered here

From that doc:

var logger = new (winston.Logger)({
  transports: [
    new (winston.transports.Console)({ level: 'error' }),
    new (winston.transports.File)({ filename: 'somefile.log' })
  ]
});

Now, those examples show passing level in the option object to the console transport. When you use a file transport, I believe you would pass an options object that not only contains the filepath but also the level.

That should lead to something like:

var logger = new (winston.Logger)({
  transports: [
    new (winston.transports.File)({ filename: 'somefile.log', level: 'error' })
  ]
});

Per that doc, note also that as of 2.0, it exposes a setLevel method to change at runtime. Look in the Using Log Levels section of that doc.