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Timberlogs

Drop-in structured logging for TypeScript

Details

External ID
46605671
Source
HN
Company
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Product
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Website domain
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Launched
Jan. 13, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
13
Upvotes percentile
0.5790513833992095
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hi HN! I built Timberlogs because I was tired of console.log in production and existing logging solutions requiring too much setup.Timberlogs is a drop-in structured logging library for TypeScript: npm install timberlogs-client import { createTimberlogs } from "timberlogs-client"; const timber = createTimberlogs({ source: "my-app", environment: "production", apiKey: process.env.TIMBER_API_KEY, }); timber.info("User signed in", { userId: "123" }); timber.error("Payment failed", error); Features: - Auto-batching with retries - Automatic redaction of sensitive data (passwords, tokens) - Full-text search across all your logs - Real-time dashboard - Flow tracking to link related logsIt's currently in beta and free to use. Would love feedback from the HN community.Site: https://timberlogs.dev Docs: https://docs.timberlogs.dev npm: https://npmjs.com/package/timberlogs-client GitHub: https://github.com/enaboapps/timberlogs-typescript-sdk

Enrichment

Theme
browser automation and scraping for AI
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
structured logging library for typescript
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a lightweight TypeScript utility wrapper around JSON formatting and HTTP transport for structured logs.

Discussion

6 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Winston, Pino, Papertrail, Datadog

Concerns raised: Not a true drop-in library despite claims, Repository appears to be Claude-generated, Website is broken, Documentation requires login and search doesn't work, Lacks spanning/tracing support

Feature requests: Transport plugins for Winston and Pino, Python interface, Support for custom metadata beyond userId and sessionId, Better explanation of API key requirement in documentation

Competitors

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Attention rank: #37 of 69 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 73 days after the earliest competitor.

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