Node.js App Logging API: Structured JSON with Pino, Winston, and Request IDs

The useful trade-off is signal quality versus noise. TL;DR: in a Node.js app, use Pino or Winston to produce structured JSON logs, then send each completed AI agent run to a central logging API with a request ID and user ID. This gives a small media team a practical view of latency and cost without pretending that a log backend provides traces, alerts, replay, or an archive. Do less first. For an agent that researches a story, calls a model several times, and writes a draft, logging every prompt fragment and intermediate object creates volume without answering the operating question.