Hi there, If anyone is interested I created an advanced logging module for Node-RED. Often the debug window gets too crowded if you want do log many different things at the same time. With my newly created node you can do long time logging to different files. Now it's suddently peace of cake to mon…

At the end of the day it is up the author. As long as it is clear (maybe via info docs) what the behaviour is for the user. We can only suggest.

Tbh, I disagree with permitting a msg property to override an explicitly entered property. Example, say a catch node is attached to a flogger node and the catch node catches such nodes as file. The object sent to flogger will have a filename property that will cause an unusable (or worse, an usabl…

[image] dceejay: We can only suggest. Exactly :smiley: . All the more reason to think through the not-so-edge cases and provide good documentation.

[image] Steve-Mcl: I disagree with permitting a msg property to override an explicitly entered property There certainly are risks when you are writing files, but I don't see making a general rule of this. In the case of the flogger node, the issue starts with the use of msg.filename, which i…

All perfectly good workarounds. As is the suggestion to use a typedinput which I would argue is slightly more user friendly? (Certainly reduces the need to add change nodes before nodes & therefore simplifies things to some degree) As @dceejay and I started originally, it is ultimately the DEVs ch…

[image] drmibell: I have used a strategy for overriding defaults that greatly reduces the chance of errors. I name properties that can be overridden as msg.nodename.property , so that for flogger the overrides object might be Btw, that is something I'm going to bear in mind for future. Good …

Thank you for the input - it almost got heated a little bit :slight_smile: Here are my decisions: I made the status text date on the node consistent with the local/UTC setting on the node (drmibell) I added a Z designator to the UTC logtime because it makes good sense to know what for the ones rea…

I have just added log rotation to flogger. Now you can specify how big your logfiles can get before they get rotated. Old logfiles can be gzip compressed if you wish. I also did a lot of refactoring of the code, but that shouldn't affect the functionality. It was getting a little to big and bulky t…

Flogger is close to my idea of a perfect logger. Thanks for the contribution! The only thing I'm wishing it had that I haven't found yet is millisecond granularity. But how am I to shut the log off??? Short of deleting the node I couldn't get it to stop logging. I thought for sure unwiring it's in…

[image] LosinIt: But how am I to shut the log off??? If you don't send a msg, it shouldn't log anything. Are you certain you deployed changes? Are there other flogger instances still operating? Try searching for flogger in node red (CTRL+f) see if there is more than one

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