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Logging

Logging is a fundamental part for your SaaS to understand and monitor the behavior of your code at runtime. Let's learn how to add logging to your NextKit application.

The NextKit Boilerplate uses pino as logging library. Pino is simple and lightweight, and it's used across the API functions to log important information that helps you debug your code.

Generally speaking, you will find that we log every function, especially for asynchronous operations that could fail for a number of reasons: network issues, API exceptions, and so on.

So, how to log your API functions effectively? Our recommendation is to log before executing an operation and then log the result of the operation, without leaking important data.

Furthermore, we want to log information such as:

  • which user is performing the operation?
  • which organization is the user part of?
  • any other information that can help you understand and debug what is happening.

Let's assume you're writing an API function to write to your database:

tsfunction addIntegrationHandler() {
  return writeToDb(data);
}

Let's rewrite the above by adding logging to your function:

tsimport logger from '~/core/logger';
 
async function addIntegrationHandler(
  userId: string,
  organizationId: number,
  integrationId: number,
) {
  // this is the context that every log will print out
  const loggingContext = {
    integrationId,
    organizationId,
    userId,
  };
 
  // Here we log what we're doing
  logger.log(loggingContext, `Adding new integration to organization`);
 
  try {
    await writeToDb(data);
 
    // Here we log that the result of the operation
    // was successful
    logger.log(loggingContext, `Integration successfully added`);
 
    // return successful response
    return {
      integrationId,
      success: true
    };
  } catch (e) {
    // Here we log that the operation failed
    logger.error(loggingContext, `Encountered an error while adding integration`);
 
    // Logging errors can be okay but
    // ensure not to leak important information!
    logger.debug(e);
 
    throw e;
  }
}
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