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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

SLF4J-native logging backend for Java and the Spring Boot default.

Very low-overhead JSON logger for Node.js, used by Fastify by default.

Flexible multi-transport logger for Node.js; very widely used though heavier than Pino.

Uber's blazing-fast, structured, leveled logging library for Go.

Head to head

Metric	Logback	Pino	Winston	zap
Stars	3.2k	18.3k	24.5k	24.7k
Weekly downloads	n/a	76.6M	36M	n/a
Download growth	n/a	+47%	+7%	n/a
Popularity score	64/100	88/100	87/100	80/100
Forks	1.4k	1k	1.9k	1.6k
Open issues	329	176	546	204
Last commit	2w ago	1mo ago	3mo ago	1mo ago
Latest version	n/a	10.4.0	3.19.0	n/a
License	n/a	MIT	MIT	MIT
First released	2009	2016	2010	2016
Signals	Popular	Popular	Popular	None
Listed in	Backend › Logging	Backend › Logging	Backend › Logging	Backend › Logging

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SLF4J-native logging backend for Java and the Spring Boot default.

Very low-overhead JSON logger for Node.js, used by Fastify by default.

Flexible multi-transport logger for Node.js; very widely used though heavier than Pino.

Uber's blazing-fast, structured, leveled logging library for Go.

Metric	Logback	Pino	Winston	zap
Stars	3.2k	18.3k	24.5k	24.7k
Weekly downloads	n/a	76.6M	36M	n/a
Download growth	n/a	+47%	+7%	n/a
Popularity score	64/100	88/100	87/100	80/100
Forks	1.4k	1k	1.9k	1.6k
Open issues	329	176	546	204
Last commit	2w ago	1mo ago	3mo ago	1mo ago
Latest version	n/a	10.4.0	3.19.0	n/a
License	n/a	MIT	MIT	MIT
First released	2009	2016	2010	2016
Signals	Popular	Popular	Popular	None
Listed in	Backend › Logging	Backend › Logging	Backend › Logging	Backend › Logging

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): Logback, zap.