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winstonjs/winston

A logger for just about everything. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/winstonjs/winston · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) 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

Full methodology

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

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