The Complete Production SOP: How to Deploy and Run Pino Ultra-Fast Low-Overhead JSON Logger for Node.js in Autonomous AI Agents

---
name: "pino-extreme-performance-logger"
description: "Log structured JSON events at maximum throughput with asynchronous destination logging."
metadata:
  author: "Pino"
  version: "1.0.0"
  runtime_compatibility:
    - "codex"
    - "claude-code"
    - "cursor"
    - "windsurf"
triggers:
  - "configure pino logger"
  - "redact sensitive fields pino"
  - "async destination pino"
permissions:
  fs_read: true
  fs_write: "workspace"
  shell_exec: false
  net_access: false
---

# Pino Ultra-Fast Low-Overhead JSON Logger for Node.js

Configures Pino logger: structuring child loggers with context bindings (reqId, tenantId), log levels (debug, info, error), custom serializers, redaction of sensitive keys (password, authorization), and pino-pretty for development.

## When to Invoke
Invoke this skill whenever you need to:
- configure pino logger
- redact sensitive fields pino
- async destination pino

## Execution SOP & Rules
1. Initialize logger: const logger = pino({ level: 'info', redact: ['req.headers.authorization', '*.password'] }).
2. For extreme performance: use pino.destination({ sync: false }) to avoid blocking event loop on disk I/O.
3. Create child logger per request: const reqLogger = logger.child({ reqId: req.id }).
4. Pipe through pino-pretty in development only; keep raw newline-delimited JSON in production.

## Verification Checklist
- Run local linting, syntax validation, and type-checks before reporting completion.
- Ensure all created or modified files adhere to workspace boundaries and avoid uncommitted secrets.
- Verify tests or build commands exit cleanly with return code 0.

import pino from 'pino';

const isProduction = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production';

const destination = pino.destination({
  sync: false,
  minLength: 4096
});

export const logger = pino(
  {
    level: process.env.LOG_LEVEL || 'info',
    redact: {
      paths: ['req.headers.authorization', '*.password', 'user.token', 'creditCard'],
      censor: '[REDACTED]'
    },
    timestamp: pino.stdTimeFunctions.isoTime
  },
  isProduction ? destination : undefined
);

// Ensure logs are flushed before process exit
const handleExit = () => {
  destination.flushSync();
  process.exit(0);
};
process.on('SIGINT', handleExit);
process.on('SIGTERM', handleExit);