Production logs include timestamps (Switch to Winston)

[raucao]

When using systemd, logs from journalctl contain duplicate timestamp data, because systemd adds those by itself already:

Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:layer new '/complete'
Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:route get '/complete'
Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:layer new '/'
Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:route new '/delayed'
Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:layer new '/delayed'
Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:route get '/delayed'
Mar 19 16:29:19 dev sockethub[8187]: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:29:19 GMT express:router:layer new '/'

Would probably make sense to use NODE_ENV for some of these presets, and only show timestamps in development for example.

[silverbucket]

@skddc I had a look at this today, and sockethub isn't actually logging any timestamps that I can see. Is it coming from somewhere else?

[raucao]

Maybe some node.js default?

[silverbucket]

@skddc note node.js itself, but is it set up on the server to use some kind of service which keeps the process running? ( always, etc.)

[raucao]

systemd is adding the first timestamp in its journal. This issue is about the extra timestamp added by Sockethub.

[silverbucket]

@skddc it seems to be the debug module, which automatically outputs differently based on whether it's in a tty or not.
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug

There doesn't seem to be any way to turn this off at the moment, though there does seem to be some discussion about it in this issue: debug-js/debug#370

Opened this issue: debug-js/debug#453

[raucao]

Cool.

[silverbucket]

debug-js/debug#582

[silverbucket]

Or possibly switch to Winston as part of the effort to implement log levels #225

[raucao]

Or possibly switch to Winston as part of the effort to implement log levels #225

That one is also being added to armadietto atm: remotestorage/armadietto#49