You may also be interested in looking at other packages, such as Bunyan (https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan) or Pino (https://github.com/pinojs/pino); the latter is said to be the logging package with the best performance, but don't take my word for it—try it out! Finally, should you work on developing npm packages, then debug (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug), which is basically a wrapper around console methods, could be your package of choice—and being quite simple, it also works for web applications and Node.