winstonjs/winston
A logger for just about everything. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
83/100
- Activity 93
- Release rhythm 60
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 8
- age_days: 5726
- days_rel: 269
- days_push: 44
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
24507 stars · 1848 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Winston is a universal logging library for Node.js supporting multiple transports such as console, files, and remote storage. It offers flexible log levels, custom formats, and extensible transport APIs.
Use cases
- log application events to console and files in node.js
- send error logs to a remote database while logging info to console
- format logs as json for structured logging
- use custom logging levels in a node app
- add custom log transports to a javascript service
When to choose
- you need a mature, widely-adopted node.js logger with multiple output destinations
- you want flexible log formatting and custom levels
- you need per-transport log level filtering
When to avoid
- you need extremely high-performance logging where pino is a better fit
- you are not working in a node.js environment
- you want zero-configuration opinionated logging out of the box
Facets
library · maturity stable
logging developer-tools backend cross-platform multi-transport log-levels json-logging npm nodejs
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/winstonjs/winston · fetched 2026-08-28 · 61367890e74f
- homepage: http://github.com/winstonjs/winston · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1377d14638fc
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/winston · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7b18b932ae2c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| winstonjs/winston | main | 83 |
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