MinimumLevel doesn't seem to do anything

[VivaLaPanda]

I have this command ts-node src/server.ts | yarn pino-pretty -L info -i req.headers,res.headers,dd
But my logs still show this:

2023-09-14 14:08:15.382 web web:dev: [14:08:15.382] DEBUG (58318 on senseofirection.lan):
2023-09-14 14:08:15.382 web web:dev:     query: "SELECT SUM(\"credits\") FROM (SELECT \"public\".\"CreditEntry\".\"credits\" FROM \"public\".\"CreditEntry\" WHERE \"public\".\"CreditEntry\".\"userId\" = $1 OFFSET $2) AS \"sub\""
2023-09-14 14:08:15.382 web web:dev:     duration_ms: 3
2023-09-14 14:08:15.382 web web:dev:     message: "prisma query"
2023-09-14 14:08:15.383 web web:dev: [14:08:15.383] DEBUG (58318 on senseofirection.lan):
2023-09-14 14:08:15.383 web web:dev:     query: "COMMIT"
2023-09-14 14:08:15.383 web web:dev:     duration_ms: 1
2023-09-14 14:08:15.383 web web:dev:     message: "prisma query"
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev: [14:08:15.384] INFO (58318 on senseofirection.lan):
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:     req: {
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:       "id": 1,
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:       "method": "GET",
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:       "url": "/api/credits/balance",
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:       "remoteAddress": "::1",
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:       "remotePort": 61496
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:     }
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:     res: {
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:       "statusCode": 200
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:     }
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:     responseTime: 19
2023-09-14 14:08:15.385 web web:dev:     message: "request completed"

I've tried using -L 30 etc, and nothing has worked

[jsumners]

Possible duplicate #455.

[wdanilo]

I was facing the same issue so I started debugging the implementation. It looks like Pino is filtering messages before they go to transports (which makes sense, but it should be clearly stated in the piano-pretty docs as well). So be sure to also set level on logger, and then it will work fine.

[mcollina]

Thanks for reporting! Would you like to send a Pull Request to address this issue?

[wdanilo]

@mcollina but there is no error, everything works as expected. Are you talking about a PR to docs to explain it better?

[mcollina]

yes, exactly!

[nijynot]

I have a case where minimumLevel doesn't seem to do anything when using pino.multistream.

const prettyStream = build({
  minimumLevel: "trace",
  colorize: true,
  messageFormat: (log) => {
    let print = "";
    if (Number.isInteger(log?.index)) print += `(${log?.index}) `;
    if (log?.address) print += `${log?.address}: `;
    print += `${log?.msg}`;

    return print;
  },
  ignore: "hostname,address,index",
});
const fileStream = {
  level: "trace",
  stream: fs.createWriteStream(getLogFileName(), { flags: "a" }),
};
const multistream = pino.multistream([fileStream, prettyStream]);

export const logger = pino({ level: "trace" }, multistream);

So level is set in all cases, but still not working for pino-pretty.
It does work for the fileStream, although.

[mcollina]

This should work

const prettyStream = build({
  minimumLevel: "trace",
  colorize: true,
  messageFormat: (log) => {
    let print = "";
    if (Number.isInteger(log?.index)) print += `(${log?.index}) `;
    if (log?.address) print += `${log?.address}: `;
    print += `${log?.msg}`;

    return print;
  },
  ignore: "hostname,address,index",
});
const fileStream = {
  level: "trace",
  stream: fs.createWriteStream(getLogFileName(), { flags: "a" }),
};
const multistream = pino.multistream([fileStream, { level: 'trace', stream: prettyStream }]);

export const logger = pino({ level: "trace" }, multistream);