Not able to see Parse Logs in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

[sprabs]

In my Parse app that is hosted on parse.com, there's an easy place to see the logs for Cloud Code (i.e, calls made, inputs, outputs). In my new test Parse app that is hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, I am unable to see those same logs. I am able to tail logs in /var/log, but those do not send back Cloud Code errors. It only shows high-level nodejs errors and also log statements from code that is being executed.

Is there something we have to enable (I noticed there is a logs folder that's empty in /var/app/current) or do we have to setup those logs ourselves?

[sprabs]

I'm also not able to see the errors on the client side in the debugger. It's almost like the error is not being passed back?

[peterdotjs]

@sprabs you'll need to select the loggerAdapter and use info/error explicitly for logging. Wiki details, and test for an example. We currently only have a FileLogger adapter.

[boardmain]

can you show an example on how to setup the filelogger? im trying to use it with the parse serve example but without success

[gfosco]

Here's an example:

var logger = require('parse-server/lib/Adapters/Logger/FileLoggerAdapter').FileLoggerAdapter;

// ...

var api = new ParseServer({
  databaseURI: databaseUri || 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dev',
  cloud: process.env.CLOUD_CODE_MAIN || __dirname + '/cloud/main.js',
  appId: process.env.APP_ID || 'myAppId',
  masterKey: process.env.MASTER_KEY || '', //Add your master key here. Keep it secret!
  serverURL: process.env.SERVER_URL || 'http://localhost:1337',  // Don't forget to change to https if needed
  loggerAdapter: new logger({ logsFolder: './' })
});

@peterdotjs do we / can we expose this adapter in an easier fashion?

[boardmain]

thank you, yes i found it, i was thinking the Adapter was exported by parse-server like the s3 adapter
thank you

[prodigy2m]

Hi this example gives me error: loggerAdapter: new logger({ logsFolder: './' }),
^
TypeError: logger is not a function
at Object. (/root/parse-server-example/index.js:27:18)
at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
at startup (node.js:148:18)
at node.js:405:3

[TheMikeCannell]

@prodigy2m verify that you have this line as well:
var logger = require('parse-server/lib/Adapters/Logger/FileLoggerAdapter').FileLoggerAdapter;

[yairsz]

This is now referenced in the wiki page:
https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/wiki/Configuring-LoggerAdapter

[mer10z]

FileLoggerAdapter is no longer part of parse-server and the link to configure LoggerAdapter on the wiki is broken. I couldn't find any up to date documentation for logging from cloud code, so I just npm installed winston and logged to my own file.

[acinader]

@mer10z I'm deployed on beanstalks and I wrote an adapter to publish parse-server logs to AWS firehose which will aggregate logs from a cluster into a nice searchable gui.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/parse-aws-firehose-logger-adapter

if you want to use it and have any issues let me know...