A TCP console log for Bunyan

A replacement of console.log with logstash tcp, and auto reconnect when error or disconnec appears. It also exports the bunyanlog for modifing.

Credits

This module is heavily based on bunyan-logstash-tcp.

Usage

    var bunyan = require('bunyan-logstash-tcp-consolelog');
    var options = {};
    var streamsOptions = {};
    var bunyanLog;

    options.project_name = 'test bunyan console log';
    options.name = 'test';
    
    options.level = 'debug';

    streamsOptions.host = '127.0.0.1';
    streamsOptions.port = '9998';

    bunyanLog = bunyan.createLogger(options, streamsOptions);

    console.log('log test');
    console.warn('warn test');
    console.error('error test');

    bunyanLog.error('bunyan error test');

Configuration

You can use default setting without passing, or passing options and streamsOptions

Options is to configure the bunyan module, the name is required. You can add other parameters

Parameter	Type	Default
name	string	undefined

streamOption is to configure the TCP stream.

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	array|string[]	["bunyan"]

Installation

$ npm install bunyan-logstash-tcp-consolelog

Events

Inside the console.log stream will emit open, close and error. Once it emit error or close, it will start auto reconnect based on Retry Algorithm;

Logstash Configuration

Configuration for Logstash 1.3.3+:

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-1.5.0.tar.gz)
• Create a test logstash configuration logstash.conf

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

Example Website

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License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright © 2015 Dexter Yan

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.