Pino Has the Fastest Node.js Logger — Here's Why You Should Switch from Winston

Winston was the go-to Node.js logger for years. But Pino is 5x faster — and here is why performance-focused teams are switching. Why Pino is Faster Pino logs as NDJSON (newline-delimited JSON) with minimal overhead. No synchronous operations, no string formatting in the hot path. Just fast, structured JSON. Winston: ~10,000 ops/sec Pino: ~52,000 ops/sec Quick Start bun add pino pino-pretty import pino from " pino " ; const logger = pino ({ level : " info " }); logger . info ( " Server started " ); logger . info ({ port : 3000 }, " Listening on port " ); logger . error ({ err : new Error ( " DB failed " ) }, " Database connection error " ); logger . warn ({ userId : " 123 " , action : " login_failed " }, " Authentication failed " ); Output: { "level" : 30 , "time" : 1711800000000 , "msg" : "Server started" } { "level" : 30 , "time" : 1711800000001 , "port" : 3000 , "msg" : "Listening on port" } Pretty Printing (Development) # Pipe through pino-pretty node app.js | pino-pretty // Or conf