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Show HN: Timberlogs – Drop-in structured logging for TypeScript

10 points by enaboapps

by ramon156

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> I was tired of console.log in production and existing logging solutions requiring too much setup.
Not only that, libs like pino don't even support spanning, something that's pretty important for how I use logging. Winston has been my favorite so far.
Anyway, this is just a SaaS that claims they offer a "drop-in" library, which it does not. The repo is also Claude-generated, so I'm out.
Website is also very broken, and the docs require a log-in.

by coronapl

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I'm glad to see useful features like easily adding userId and sessionId to logs. That said, I wish it wasn't limited to just these properties. From my experience building enterprise SaaS, you need more metadata for proper filtering: tenantId, operation, and others. With Winston, I typically create child logger instances and pass them around to ensure all logs contain the right metadata, but that workflow is pretty annoying.
Quick question out of curiosity: why does the example include an API key when initializing the logger? I couldn't find an explanation on the GitHub page. Some people might be put off seeing that in the first example, thinking the logger requires a paid subscription.

by uallo

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Does this provide a transport plugin for Winston [1], Pino [2], etc.?
[1] https://github.com/winstonjs/winston
[2] https://github.com/pinojs/pino
PS: Your documentation search does not work.

by gokaygurcan

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by willwade

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by willwade

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this is so cool. I think so much of the logging Saas products are bloated. This looks much simpler. I'd like a python interface.. I've used papertrail and datadog for some of this in the past but dropped it due to cost (and bloat). Nice one.