Frameworks

Cloudflare Workers

Using evlog with Cloudflare Workers — wide events, structured errors, and logging in Workers and Durable Objects.

The evlog/workers adapter provides factory functions for creating request-scoped loggers with Cloudflare-specific context. Unlike framework integrations, Workers require manual log.emit() calls since there is no middleware lifecycle to hook into.

Quick Start

1. Install

bun add evlog

2. Initialize and create request loggers

src/worker.ts
import { initWorkersLogger, createWorkersLogger } from 'evlog/workers'

initWorkersLogger({
  env: { service: 'my-worker' },
})

export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: Env): Promise<Response> {
    const log = createWorkersLogger(request)

    log.set({ action: 'handle_request' })

    // ... your handler logic

    log.emit()
    return Response.json({ ok: true })
  },
}

createWorkersLogger(request) automatically extracts method, path, and cf-ray from the request.

You must call log.emit() manually before returning a response. Workers don't have a request lifecycle hook to auto-emit.

Wide Events

Build up context progressively, then emit at the end:

src/worker.ts
export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: Env): Promise<Response> {
    const log = createWorkersLogger(request)
    const url = new URL(request.url)

    log.set({ route: url.pathname })

    const user = await env.DB.prepare('SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?').bind(url.searchParams.get('userId')).first()
    log.set({ user: { id: user.id, plan: user.plan } })

    const orders = await env.DB.prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM orders WHERE user_id = ?').bind(user.id).first()
    log.set({ orders: { count: orders.count } })

    log.emit()
    return Response.json({ user, orders })
  },
}
Terminal output
14:58:15 INFO [my-worker] GET /api/users 200 in 12ms
  ├─ orders: count=5
  ├─ user: id=usr_123 plan=pro
  ├─ route: /api/users
  └─ requestId: 4a8ff3a8-...

Error Handling

Use createError for structured errors and handle them with try/catch:

src/worker.ts
import { createError, parseError } from 'evlog'

export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: Env): Promise<Response> {
    const log = createWorkersLogger(request)

    try {
      const body = await request.json()
      log.set({ payment: { amount: body.amount } })

      if (body.amount <= 0) {
        throw createError({
          status: 400,
          message: 'Invalid payment amount',
          why: 'The amount must be a positive number',
          fix: 'Pass a positive integer in cents',
        })
      }

      log.emit()
      return Response.json({ success: true })
    } catch (error) {
      log.error(error instanceof Error ? error : new Error(String(error)))
      log.emit()

      const parsed = parseError(error)
      return Response.json({
        message: parsed.message,
        why: parsed.why,
        fix: parsed.fix,
      }, { status: parsed.status })
    }
  },
}

Drain & Enrichers

Configure drain and enrichers via initWorkersLogger options:

src/worker.ts
import { initWorkersLogger, createWorkersLogger } from 'evlog/workers'
import { createAxiomDrain } from 'evlog/axiom'
import { createUserAgentEnricher } from 'evlog/enrichers'
import { createDrainPipeline } from 'evlog/pipeline'
import type { DrainContext } from 'evlog'

const pipeline = createDrainPipeline<DrainContext>({
  batch: { size: 50, intervalMs: 5000 },
})
const drain = pipeline(createAxiomDrain())
const userAgent = createUserAgentEnricher()

initWorkersLogger({
  env: { service: 'my-worker' },
  drain,
  enrich: (ctx) => {
    userAgent(ctx)
  },
})
See the Adapters and Enrichers docs for all available drain adapters and enrichers.

Wrangler Configuration

Disable Cloudflare's default invocation logs to avoid duplicates when using evlog:

wrangler.toml
[observability]
enabled = false

Run Locally

wrangler dev