Could we format logs better?

Currently (working with 0.9.7), if I open Docker container logs in a text reader I see something like

GET /account/customer?restype=container&comp=list 200 19.399 ms - 255

Escape chars are so annoying 😦 Could we turn them off?

Also, would be really helpful to print timestamp in some way, e.g. HH:mm:ss.SSS

Thanks a lot!

[pmanlukas]

I will start implementing this change in this week

[edwin-huber]

Thanks. I’ll mark this as a good first issue and hopefully somebody can get around to looking at it soon.

We use morgan middleware for the logging, which is documented here: https://github.com/expressjs/morgan

to give you the date and unformatted version like you are asking for, one would need to usesomething like:

if (!env.silent) {
    app.use(morgan(':date[iso] :method :url :status :res[content-length] - :response-time ms'));
}