Cannot Get Azure Node.js Logging Enabled - node.js

Question

I am unable to get logging to work for a node application I am deploying to Windows Azure. I am overriding the web.config with the iisnode.yml file option.
Here's the yml file contents:
node_env: development
nodeProcessCountPerApplication: 1
maxConcurrentRequestsPerProcess: 1024
maxNamedPipeConnectionRetry: 24
namedPipeConnectionRetryDelay: 250
maxNamedPipeConnectionPoolSize: 512
maxNamedPipePooledConnectionAge: 30000
asyncCompletionThreadCount: 0
initialRequestBufferSize: 4096
maxRequestBufferSize: 65536
watchedFiles: *.js;iisnode.yml
uncFileChangesPollingInterval: 5000
gracefulShutdownTimeout: 60000
loggingEnabled: true
logDirectory: iisnode
debuggingEnabled: true
debuggerPortRange: 5058-6058
debuggerPathSegment: debug
maxLogFileSizeInKB: 128
maxTotalLogFileSizeInKB: 1024
maxLogFiles: 20
devErrorsEnabled: true
flushResponse: false
enableXFF: false
Here's the contents of the web.config file that's being overriden:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="false" />
<iisnode configOverrides="iisnode.yml" debuggingEnabled="true" loggingEnabled="true" logDirectory="iisnode" devErrorsEnabled="true" nodeProcessCommandLine=""%programfiles(x86)%\nodejs\node.exe"" />
<handlers>
<add name="iisnode" path="server.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
</handlers>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="app" enabled="true" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="server\.js.+" negate="true" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="server.js" />
</rule>
<rule name="LogFile" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="iisnode"/>
</rule>
<rule name="NodeInspector" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^server.js\/debug[\/]?" />
</rule>
<rule name="StaticContent">
<action type="Rewrite" url="public{{REQUEST_URI}}"/>
</rule>
<rule name="DynamicContent">
<conditions>
<add input="{{REQUEST_FILENAME}}" matchType="IsFile" negate="True"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="server.js"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I'm pretty sure I have enabled every logging option I can in both, but neither seems to be picked up by Azure during deployment and when I access the typical logging location, http://mysite.com/iisnode/index.html or http://mysite.com/iisnode/ I receive a 404 error.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you are using express add this under your static folder location
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/../iisnode'));
Or define your own log routes like below.. here you can get fancy and only show errors etc.
//logging routes
var fs = require('fs');
app.get('/iisnode', function(req, res){
var _index = fs.readFileSync('./iisnode/index.html', 'utf8');
var index = _index.replace("logCell.innerHTML = 'log';", "logCell.innerHTML = 'log';");
res.send(index);
});
app.get('/iisnode/:log', function(req, res){
var _log = fs.readFileSync('./iisnode/' + req.route.params['log'], 'utf8');
res.contentType('text/plain');
res.send(_log);
});
You can replace the app.get with whatever routing solution you are using.
Remember to remove before launching the app in production.