Silent option not working with winston.loggers.add configuration

Please tell us about your environment:

• winston version? 3.0.0-rc4
• node -v outputs: 8.4.0
• Operating System? MacOS
• Language? ES6/7

What is the problem?

silent: true - option not working as expected for multiple logger use. I have a ‘winston.js’ file with a logger configuration I use on multiple files. winston.js

winston.loggers.add('customLogger', { 
  console: {
    level: 'info',
    label: 'info,
  },
  transports: [
    new winston.transports.Console({
      silent: true
    }),
  ],
});

I then import the logger app.js

const winston = require('winston');
const logger = winston.loggers.get('customLogger');

logger.info('message');

The logs are not suppressed.

If I use createLogger in the app.js with the same configuration it works as expected. Can we get the silent option to work for multiple loggers use? Thank you

[davelnewton]

FWIW, I had the same issue using winston.loggers.add and retrieving them later. The loggers existed, e.g., calling get on the named logger returned the logger, but it had an empty transports array, despite having been created with a transports array in the add call.’

"winston": "^3.2.1"

This is an Electron (via electron-forge) app, Babel 6.24, etc. if that matters.

[EvanSchalton]

FWIW I think this is still an issue: "winston": "^3.3.3"

my setup file looks like this:

import winston, {format} from 'winston';
const { combine, timestamp, json } = format;

const transports = {
  console: new winston.transports.Console({ level: 'warn', silent: true }),
  file: new winston.transports.File({ filename: './stdout.log', level: 'info' }),
  verbose: new winston.transports.File({ filename: './verbose-stdout.log', level: 'debug' })
};

winston.loggers.add('logger', {
  format: combine(
    timestamp(),
    json()
  ),
  transports: [transports.console, transports.file, transports.verbose]
})

my application files try to import like this: import { loggers } from 'winston' const logger = loggers.get('logger')

a log like this: logger.debug("test")

results in this: console.error [winston] Attempt to write logs with no transports ...