Logstash TCP stream for Bunyan


A tcp logger for Logstash

Configuration options

| level | string | "info" |
|-------------|----------|-----------------|
| server | string | os.hostname() |
| host | string | "127.0.0.1" |
| port | number | 9999 |
| application | string | process.title |
| pid | string | process.pid |
| tags | string[] | ["bunyan"] |

Adding the bunyan-logstash stream to Bunyan

``
var log = bunyan.createLogger({
streams: [
{
type: "raw",
stream: require('bunyan-logstash-tcp').createStream({
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: 9908
})
}
]
});
`

Example

`javascript
"use strict";

var bunyan = require('bunyan'),
bunyantcp = require('bunyan-logstash-tcp');

var log = bunyan.createLogger({
name: 'example',
streams: [{
level: 'debug',
stream: process.stdout
},{
level: 'debug',
type: "raw",
stream: bunyantcp.createStream({
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: 9998
})
}],
level: 'debug'
});

log.debug('test');
log.error('error test');
`

Logstash Configuration

Configuration for Logstash 1.3.3+:

`javascript
input {
// config for bunyan udp
udp {
'port' => "9999"
}
// config for bunyan tcp
tcp {
'port' => "9998"
}
}
`

Try with logstash locally

- Download logstash from http://logstash.net/
- Unpack it (tar -zxf logstash-1.4.2.tar.gz)
- Create a test logstash configuration logstash.conf

`code
input {
stdin {
type => "stdin-type"
}
udp {
port => "9999"
}
tcp {
port => "9998"
}
}
output {
stdout {}
}
`

- Run bin/logstash agent -f logstash.conf
- Run node example/log.js

Credits

This module is heavily based on bunyan-logstash and re-uses parts of winston-logstash.

Thanks to

- sheknows
- jaakkos
- Chris Rock

for their amazing work

License

MIT