nodejs: Receiving JSON messages from nodejs applications

nodejs: Receiving JSON messages from nodejs applications

Using the nodejs() driver, syslog-ng OSE can receive application logs directly from nodejs applications that use the widespread Winston logging API. The syslog-ng OSE application automatically adds the .nodejs.winston. prefix to the name of the fields the extracted from the message.

To use the nodejs() driver, the scl.conf file must be included in your syslog-ng OSE configuration:

@include "scl.conf"

The nodejs() driver is actually a reusable configuration snippet configured to receive log messages using the network() driver, and process its JSON contents. For details on using or writing such configuration snippets, see Reusing configuration blocks. You can find the source of the nodejs configuration snippet on GitHub.

@include "scl.conf"
source apps { nodejs(); };

@include "scl.conf"
source apps {
    nodejs(
        localip(192.168.1.1)
        port(9999)
    )
};