format info to reduce length of long errors

src/app.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 import cookieParser from 'cookie-parser';
 import express, { NextFunction, Request, Response } from 'express';
-import winstonExpress from 'express-winston';
 import Handlebars from 'hbs';
 import helmet from 'helmet';
 import createError from 'http-errors';
 import i18n from 'i18n';
 import path from 'path';
-import winston from 'winston';
 
 import makeMetricsApiMiddleware from './middleware/metrics';
 import indexRouter from './routes/index';
@@ -39,21 +37,6 @@ app.use(
   }),
 );
 
-app.use(winstonExpress.logger({
-  transports: [
-    new winston.transports.Console(),
-  ],
-  format: winston.format.combine(
-    winston.format.colorize(),
-    winston.format.json(),
-  ),
-  meta: true, // optional: control whether you want to log the meta data about the request (default to true)
-  msg: 'HTTP {{req.method}} {{req.url}}', // optional: customize the default logging message. E.g. "{{res.statusCode}} {{req.method}} {{res.responseTime}}ms {{req.url}}"
-  expressFormat: true, // Use the default Express/morgan request formatting. Enabling this will override any msg if true. Will only output colors with colorize set to true
-  colorize: false, // Color the text and status code, using the Express/morgan color palette (text: gray, status: default green, 3XX cyan, 4XX yellow, 5XX red).
-  ignoreRoute: (_req, _res) => false, // optional: allows to skip some log messages based on request and/or response
-}));
-
 app.use(express.json());
 app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
 app.use(cookieParser());

src/utils/logging.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,30 @@
 import expressWinston from 'express-winston';
-import winston, { createLogger } from 'winston';
+import winston, { createLogger, format } from 'winston';
 
 import { isProduction } from './process';
 
+function truncateMessage(message: string, maxChars: number): string {
+  return message.length > maxChars ? message.substring(0, maxChars) : message;
+}
+
+const formatInfo = format((info) => {
+  if (info.private) { return false; }
+  const shortenedMessage = truncateMessage(info.message, 250);
+  return { ...info, message: shortenedMessage };
+});
+
 const logger = createLogger({
   transports: [
     new winston.transports.Console({
       level: isProduction ? 'info' : 'debug',
     }),
   ],
+  format: format.combine(
+    formatInfo(),
+    format.json(),
+  ),
 });
+
 logger.exceptions.handle(new winston.transports.Console({
   level: isProduction ? 'info' : 'debug',
 }));
@@ -20,6 +35,7 @@ const headersToRedact = ['authorization', 'authentication'];
 export const getLoggingMiddleware = () => expressWinston.logger({
   winstonInstance: logger,
   headerBlacklist: headersToRedact,
+  meta: false,
 });
 
 export default logger;