You mentioned not using Winston because you liked to be able to see things on the console. Why not just change the configuration for development to dump to the console and to syslog in production?
Rsyslog has a file source module: imfile( <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/imfile.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/imfile.html</a>). May help in some cases.<p>Saz
Seems like there is a lot of inventing the wheel.<p>Plus, if you want to put your logs in PaperTrail without using Ruby, there is this for winston: <a href="https://github.com/kenperkins/winston-papertrail" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kenperkins/winston-papertrail</a>