What is Bunyan?
It is a simple and fast JSON logging module for node.js services. It has extensible streams system for controlling where log records go (to a stream, to a file, log file rotation, etc.)
Bunyan is a tool in the Logging Tools category of a tech stack.
Bunyan is an open source tool with 7.2K GitHub stars and 518 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Bunyan's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Bunyan?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use Bunyan in their tech stacks, including Ruby, Ruby, and Ruby.
Developers
38 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Bunyan.
Bunyan Integrations
Bunyan's Features
- Elegant log method API
- Extensible streams system for controlling where log records go (to a stream, to a file, log file rotation, etc.)
- bunyan CLI for pretty-printing and filtering of Bunyan logs
- simple include of log call source location (file, line, function) with src: true
- lightweight specialization of Logger instances with log.child
- Custom rendering of logged objects with "serializers"
- Runtime log snooping via DTrace support
- Support for a few runtime environments: Node.js, Browserify, Webpack, NW.js
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