Multiple log files with Winston?

Question

We\'d like to use Winston for our logging in Node.js. But, we can\'t figure out how to have two log files: one for just errors, and one for everything else.

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Answer 1

You just need to give the transport a custom name property so you don't have a collision:

const logger = new (winston.Logger)({
  transports: [
    new (winston.transports.Console)(),
    new (winston.transports.File)({ name: 'text', filename: logFile, json: false }),
    new (winston.transports.File)({ name: 'json', filename: logFileJson })
  ]
});

You can read more about multiple transports in the docs: https://github.com/winstonjs/winston#multiple-transports-of-the-same-type