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ANSI Color Codes being logged to log files

See original GitHub issue

Track of old issues: https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/5 https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/4

I’m still having this issue with exceptions and if I log an Error Object. On other logs it does not occur.

Code

inspect = require('eyespect').inspector({maxLength: null})
chalk = require('chalk')

winston = require('winston')
mkdirp = require('mkdirp')
require('winston-mongodb').MongoDB

envrionment = require('../config/config.js')()

socketIoMessenger = require('../socket-io/socket-io-messenger.js')
environment = require('../config/config.js')()

logger = null
io = null
lastMessage = null

exports.launchLogger = (db)->
  mkdirp('logs', (err) ->
    console.log err if err?
  )

  winston.emitErrs = true
  logger = new winston.Logger({
    transports: [
      new winston.transports.MongoDB({
          level: 'info'
          db : db,
          collection: 'serverlogs'
          handleExceptions: false
          colorize: false
          timestamp: true
        }),
      new winston.transports.Console({
        level: 'info'
        handleExceptions: false
        json: false
        colorize: true
      })
    ],
    exitOnError: false
  })
  winston.level = 'error'
  winston.handleExceptions(new winston.transports.File({ filename: 'logs/uncaughtExceptions.log', colorize: false })) if envrionment != 'development'

  winston.exitOnError = false

  logger.stream = {
    write: (message, encoding) ->
      logger.info(message)
  }

  logger.on('logging', (transport, level, message, meta) ->
    # console.log "[#{message}] and [#{JSON.stringify(meta)}] have now been logged at [#{level}] to [#{transport}]"
    if io != null && message != lastMessage && level == 'info'
      lastMessage = message
      socketIoMessenger.sendLog(io, {'message':message, 'level':level, 'meta':meta})
  )

  logger.setIo = (newIo) ->
    console.log "setIO"
    io = newIo

  return logger

exports.getLogger = ()->
  return logger

Error (meta)

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soichihcommented, Apr 26, 2017

I’ve worked around this by using following configuration for winston

            new winston.transports.Console({
                ...
                colorize: process.stdout.isTTY,
            }),

process.stdout.isTTY is set to true only if the stdout is TTY (text terminal) - not pipe.

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indexzerocommented, Mar 23, 2018

In winston@3.0.0 you can control colorization using built-in or custom formats. Please consider upgrading.

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