Support batch mode in HTTP Transport

What’s the feature?

For performance reason, a batch mode should be available on http transport to break the 1 log = 1 request and send http request by configurable batches.

What problem is the feature intended to solve?

When using http transport, a request is sent to the http server for every log call. So 100 logs, 100 http requests.

Is the absence of this feature blocking you or your team? If so, how?

Not blocking but it has a bad user experience impact on our web application. We’re using winston http transport to collect all our client logs in our backend log file. During page loading, our web application is a little bit verbose in “info” level. We’ve seen that the http log requests has a direct impact on the load page time (ie disabling http logs made load pagefaster).

Is this feature similar to an existing feature in another tool?

Yes, take a look at winston-splunk-http-transport

Is this a feature you’re prepared to implement, with support from us?

That’s possible… 😃

[DABH]

Yep, we have some other maintainers now, so a release should happen in the near future. Ideally we can fix the child logger / metadata issues that @Maverick1872 is taking the lead on, and then we will cut a new release that includes your PR.

[DABH]

I think the maintainers are unlikely to have time to implement this ourselves, but we’d welcome a PR that adds this type of functionality in a clean way. Thanks!