Re-writing the disabling of pino/logging - it seems that the pino logger is causing a variety of issues in the built CLI version - easier to offer an environment variable for backend-core which completely removes the logger.

packages/backend-core/src/environment.ts

@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ const environment = {
     ? process.env.ENABLE_SSO_MAINTENANCE_MODE
     : false,
   VERSION: findVersion(),
+  DISABLE_PINO_LOGGER: process.env.DISABLE_PINO_LOGGER,
   _set(key: any, value: any) {
     process.env[key] = value
     // @ts-ignore

packages/backend-core/src/logging/index.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 export * as correlation from "./correlation/correlation"
-export { logger, disableLogger } from "./pino/logger"
+export { logger } from "./pino/logger"
 export * from "./alerts"
 
 // turn off or on context logging i.e. tenantId, appId etc

packages/backend-core/src/logging/pino/logger.ts

@@ -5,19 +5,10 @@ import * as correlation from "../correlation"
 import { IdentityType } from "@budibase/types"
 import { LOG_CONTEXT } from "../index"
 
-// CORE LOGGERS - for disabling
-
-const BUILT_INS = {
-  log: console.log,
-  error: console.error,
-  info: console.info,
-  warn: console.warn,
-  trace: console.trace,
-  debug: console.debug,
-}
-
 // LOGGER
 
+let pinoInstance: pino.Logger | undefined
+if (!env.DISABLE_PINO_LOGGER) {
   const pinoOptions: LoggerOptions = {
     level: env.LOG_LEVEL,
     formatters: {
@@ -40,16 +31,7 @@ if (env.isDev()) {
     }
   }
 
-export const logger = pino(pinoOptions)
+  pinoInstance = pino(pinoOptions)
-
-export function disableLogger() {
-  console.log = BUILT_INS.log
-  console.error = BUILT_INS.error
-  console.info = BUILT_INS.info
-  console.warn = BUILT_INS.warn
-  console.trace = BUILT_INS.trace
-  console.debug = BUILT_INS.debug
-}
 
 // CONSOLE OVERRIDES
 
@@ -121,19 +103,19 @@ function getLogParams(args: any[]): [MergingObject, string] {
 
   console.log = (...arg: any[]) => {
     const [obj, msg] = getLogParams(arg)
-  logger.info(obj, msg)
+    pinoInstance?.info(obj, msg)
   }
   console.info = (...arg: any[]) => {
     const [obj, msg] = getLogParams(arg)
-  logger.info(obj, msg)
+    pinoInstance?.info(obj, msg)
   }
   console.warn = (...arg: any[]) => {
     const [obj, msg] = getLogParams(arg)
-  logger.warn(obj, msg)
+    pinoInstance?.warn(obj, msg)
   }
   console.error = (...arg: any[]) => {
     const [obj, msg] = getLogParams(arg)
-  logger.error(obj, msg)
+    pinoInstance?.error(obj, msg)
   }
 
   /**
@@ -147,12 +129,12 @@ console.trace = (...arg: any[]) => {
       // to get stack trace
       obj.err = new Error()
     }
-  logger.trace(obj, msg)
+    pinoInstance?.trace(obj, msg)
   }
 
   console.debug = (...arg: any) => {
     const [obj, msg] = getLogParams(arg)
-  logger.debug(obj, msg)
+    pinoInstance?.debug(obj, msg)
   }
 
 // CONTEXT
@@ -186,3 +168,6 @@ const getIdentity = () => {
     }
     return identity
   }
+}
+
+export const logger = pinoInstance

packages/cli/src/index.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
+process.env.DISABLE_PINO_LOGGER = "1"
 import "./prebuilds"
 import "./environment"
-import { env, logging } from "@budibase/backend-core"
+import { env } from "@budibase/backend-core"
-logging.disableLogger()
 import { getCommands } from "./options"
 import { Command } from "commander"
 import { getHelpDescription } from "./utils"