slack-winston

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A Slackslack transport for winstonwinston.

NOTE: This package was created because winston-slack did not have similar code

structure to winston-hipchat (switched from using HipChat → Slack and wanted consistency).

Index

• Install
• Usage
• Credits
• License

Install

npm install -S winston slack-winston

Usage

var winston = require('winston')
var slackWinston = require('slack-winston').Slack

var options = {
  domain: 'my-domain',
  token: 'my-slack-incoming-webhook-token',
  webhook_url: 'my-slack-incoming-webhook-url',
  channel: 'general',
  level: 'warn'
}

winston.add(slackWinston, options)

Many options can be seen in the Slack API docs.

• level: Level of messages that this transport should log
• silent: If true, will not log messages
• token: Required. Slack incoming webhook token
• webhookurl: Required. Slack incoming webhook url.
• channel: Required. Channel of chat (e.g. "#foo" or "@foo")
• domain: Required. Domain of Slack (e.g. "foo" if "foo.slack.com")
• username: Username of the incoming webhook Slack bot (defaults to "Winston")
• iconemoji: Icon of bot (defaults to :tophat: :tophat:)
• message: lodash templates. Gets passed the {{message}}, {{level}}, and {{meta}} as a JSON string. If not specified, it will print a default of {{message}}\n\n{{meta}}. Note that this gets sent as the text field in the payload per Slack requirements.
• queueDelay: Delay time (ms) between messages in queue (defaults to 500)

Credits

• Based on winston-hipchat by Joey Baker
• Based on winston-loggly by Charlie Robbins

License

MITlicense-url