bunyan-syslog-udp 

A pure-JS implementation of bunyan syslog stream on top of UDP protocol.

Installation

``bash
npm install bunyan bunyan-syslog-udp
`

Verify that syslog via UDP is enabled on your system. By default, the syslog daemon listens on port 514.

In order to take advantage of the @CEE cookie functionality either rsyslog or syslog-ng must be installed.

For rsyslog, make sure the mmjsonparse module is loaded in /etc/rsyslog.conf

`bash
module(load="mmjsonparse") # for parsing CEE-enhanced syslog messages
`

Usage

`javascript
var bunyan = require('bunyan');
var bsyslog = require('bunyan-syslog-udp');

var bstream = bsyslog.createBunyanStream({
name: 'udptest', // Optional. Defaults to process.title || process.argv[0]
host: '127.0.0.1', // Optional. Defaults to '127.0.0.1'
port: 514, // Optional. Defaults to 514
facility: 'local0', // Case-insensitive. Optional. Defaults to local0
prefix: '@cee: ' // Add @cee cookie to message
});

var log = bunyan.createLogger({
streams: [{
type: 'raw', // Always use 'raw' bunyan stream
level: 'trace', // Minimum log level
stream: bstream
}]
});

// Emit a log message
log.debug("This is a test");

// and close the socket
bstream.close();
``