Debug log written to stderr

Test case:

var logger = require('winston');
logger.remove(logger.transports.Console);
logger.add(logger.transports.Console, {'timestamp': true, 'showLevel': false, 'level': 'debug'});

logger.info('info');
logger.debug('debug');
logger.error('error');

Output:

$ node test-winston.js 2>/dev/stdout 1>/dev/null
2015-02-22T11:37:59.072Z - debug: debug
2015-02-22T11:37:59.203Z - error: error

$ node test-winston.js 1>/dev/stdout 2>/dev/null 
2015-02-22T11:40:56.820Z - info: info

Expected result (disregarding the timestamp copy/paste) would be:

$ node test-winston.js 2>/dev/stdout 1>/dev/null
2015-02-22T11:37:59.203Z - error: error

$ node test-winston.js 1>/dev/stdout 2>/dev/null 
2015-02-22T11:40:56.820Z - info: info
2015-02-22T11:37:59.072Z - debug: debug

Winston version: 0.9.0, Node.js version: 0.10.18.

[briantanner]

why is it a feature to spam my error logs with debug logs?

[uwefassnacht]

This behaviour is also very confusing on Cloud Foundry based platforms (e.g. IBM Bluemix). The standard debug log messages are all classified as errors 😦

Took me a while to find https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/927 … which explains that it can be configured via the stderrLevels parameter (which I’ve now done). Still a bit unexpected, that the default behavior is for INFO level messages to route to stdout