I'm trying to find a way to store logs so that they can be seen in my website.
I have a website hosted in Heroku, where I use a package like Winston to save logs to a .log file. The problem occurs when using this system in Heroku, as when the dyno restarts every day, the log file gets deleted and a brand new .log file is created.
What would be the best way to store all these logs without them being lost on a dyno restart?
PD: I don't monitor logs but I just want a simple way of storing logs to be viewed by people in my website. Right now it's done by reading the .log file.
One interesting option could be using Papertrail: there is a free plan and with it you get a REST API to query the logs (you can then customise what users see/download).
Papertrail has Heroku integration so pushing the logs from your application should be pretty simple. You can then query/export what your need implementing access via the REST API.
Heroku has also a Papertrail add-on which I think it is the same concept as above but running on Heroku cloud.
Obviously the free plan has a short data retention, you will need to see if this works for you.