drifter-rsyslog

Stability: 1 - Experimental

Drifter output plugin for rsyslog.

Overview

drifter-rsyslog is an rsyslog output plugin. It encodes the message as a query string and issues an HTTP GET request to the specified destination.

• Usage
• Tests
• Documentation
• Sources

Usage

/path/to/drifter-rsyslog send http://localhost:8080

Tests

npm test

Documentation

• send

send

Starts to listen for messages on stdin, transforms them into a query string, and sends them to the destination as an HTTP GET request.

Usage: drifter-rsyslog send <destination>

Turns message into drifter format and sends over HTTP(S) to the specified
destination. Destination is a URI 'http(s)://<hostname>(:<port>)'.

Event data

• function (data) {}
  • data: Buffer Data returned from the destination.

Emitted when the destination sends back data.

Event end

• function () {}

Emitted when stdin is closed and all data was sent.

Event error

• function (error) {}
  • error: Object An error.
    • code: String An error code. For example ECONNREFUSED.

Emitted when the connection to the destination encounters an error.

Sources

• Writing RSysLog Plugins in 2 Minutes