Allow omitting log timestamps

Core Development Feature Requests
1

Hi,

I get my logs in journald, so having an option to omit Node-RED's own timestamps would be great.

2

You can use -o cat to strip off the system metadata, so something like
journalctl -f -u nodered -o cat

$ journalctl -f -u nodered -o cat
Welcome to Node-RED
===================
3 Nov 16:40:16 - [info] Node-RED version: v5.0.9
3 Nov 16:40:16 - [info] Node.js  version: v24.22.2
3 Nov 16:40:16 - [info] Linux 7.0.0-42-generic x64 LE
3 Nov 16:40:16 - [info] Loading palette nodes
3

Thanks, but I need to do this at the source.

4

Node-RED does, of course, have the ability to create custom logs, so you might want to check that out?

5

Indeed, thanks. I only read the settings file documentation, which didn't mention anything about custom loggers, but I took the default console logger and cleaned it up a bit. This will do, for now. Would still like to see the option.

    logging: {
        customLogger: {
            level: "info",
            metrics: false,
            audit: false
            handler: function(settings) {
                var util = require("@node-red/util");
                var verbose = settings.verbose;

                var levelNames = {
                    10: "fatal",
                    20: "error",
                    30: "warn",
                    40: "info",
                    50: "debug",
                    60: "trace",
                    98: "audit",
                    99: "metric"
                };

                return function(msg) {
                    var levelName = levelNames[msg.level];
                    var prefix = `[${levelName}] `;
                    if (msg.level == util.log.METRIC || msg.level == util.log.AUDIT) {
                        console.log(prefix + JSON.stringify(msg));
                    } else {
                        if (msg.type) {
                            prefix += `[${msg.type}:${msg.name || msg.id}] `;
                        }
                        if (verbose && msg.msg?.stack) {
                            console.log(prefix + msg.msg.stack);
                        } else {
                            var message = msg.msg;
                            try {
                                if (typeof message === 'object' && message.message) {
                                    message = message.message;
                                }
                            } catch(e) {
                                message = 'Exception trying to log: ' + util.inspect(message);
                            }

                            console.log(prefix + message);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },