Logging

The Aerospike Node.js client has internal logging. Use the Log object to control the application log verbosity level and specify the location for storing log messages. By default, Log is set to INFO to send its log messages to stderr.

Log verbosity levels are defined in aerospike.log:

OFF
ERROR
INFO (default)
DEBUG
DETAIL

Configure Logging

Configure client logging when setting system configuration. In the client configuration object, specify a log field to contain the following objects:

level — The log verbosity level.
file — The path to the log file.

This is an example configuration with defined log settings:

const Aerospike = await import("aerospike");

// Set hosts to your server's address and port
const config = {
  hosts: "YOUR_HOST_ADDRESS:YOUR_PORT",
  log: {
    level: aerospike.log.INFO,
    file: "/var/log/myapplication.log",
  },
};

// Establishes a connection to the server
const client = await Aerospike.connect(config);

Update Logging

Modify client logging during run time by using client.updateLogging(), which takes an object.

To reset the log level while the application is running:

client.updateLogging({
  level: aerospike.log.TRACE,
  file: "/var/log/new_location.log",
});