Use SEQ as a transport for winston logging of errors inside JSReport

Matthew Kee

The below describes how to use SEQ with nodeJS
https://docs.datalust.co/docs/using-nodejs
I was hoping to gain some insight into where to implement this with JSReport

What I was thinking / have tried:

Option1: Inside server.js, create the Winston logger and add the new SeqTransport. Presumably this is then available to customize in jsreport.config.json and environmental variables.
Option 2: Do not use the NPM module and instead use the http transport in jsreport.config.json

Something like:

"logger": {
    "file": {
      "transport": "file",
      "level": "info",
      "filename": "logs/reporter.log"
    },
    "error": {
      "level": "error",
      "transport": "http",
      "host": "https://test-seq.com:5341&apiKey?xxx"
    }
  },

Any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated.

jan_blaha

Install @datalust/winston-seq package

npm install @datalust/winston-seq

And edit jsreport.config.json

"logger": {
    "seq": {
      "module": "@datalust/winston-seq",
      "transport": "SeqTransport",
      "level": "error",
      "serverUrl": "https://your-seq-server:5341",
      "apiKey": "your-api-key"
    }
  }

I didn't test it with seq, but it throws some networking errors so I believe it will work when the URLs are right.

This approach is described here for loggly transport.
https://jsreport.net/learn/configuration#logging

Matthew Kee

Worked like a charm. Thanks for all the help!