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winston-graylog2

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A graylog2 transport for winston based on the node-graylog2 Library

Installation

Tested on node-0.10.x, requires npm.

  $ npm install winston
  $ npm install winston-graylog2

Usage

  var winston = require('winston');
  winston.add(require('winston-graylog2'), options);

or

var WinstonGraylog2 = require('winston-graylog2');
var logger = new(winston.Logger)({
        exitOnError: false,
        transports: [new(WinstonGraylog2)(options)]
      });

Options

• name: Transport name
• level: Level of messages this transport should log. (default: info)
• silent: Boolean flag indicating whether to suppress output. (default: false)
• handleExceptions: Boolean flag, whenever to handle uncaught exceptions. (default: false)
• exceptionsLevel: Level of exceptions logs when handleExceptions is true. (default: error)
• prelog: Pre-filtering function, to clean message before sending to graylog2 (default: empty function)
• processMeta: Metadata post-filtering function, to clean the metadata (stack traces, process info) before sending them to graylog2 (default: empty function)
• graylog:
  • servers; list of graylog2 servers
    • host: your server address (default: localhost)
    • port: your server port (default: 12201)
  • hostname: the name of this host (default: os.hostname())
  • facility: the facility for these log messages (default: "Node.js")
  • bufferSize: max UDP packet size, should never exceed the MTU of your system (default: 1400)
• staticMeta: meta data to be always used by each logging message, for instance environment (development, staging, live)

example:

{
  name: 'Graylog',
  level: 'debug',
  silent: false,
  handleExceptions: false,
  prelog: function(msg) {
    return msg.trim();
  },
  graylog: {
    servers: [{host: 'localhost', port: 12201}, {host: 'remote.host', port: 12201}],
    hostname: 'myServer',
    facility: 'myAwesomeApp',
    bufferSize: 1400
  },
  staticMeta: {env: 'staging'}
}

Log Levels

Supported log levels, as from node-graylog2, are the following

Winston Level	Graylog2 level
emerg	emergency
alert	alert
crit	critical
error	error
warning	warning
warn	warning
notice	notice
info	info
debug	debug

All other possibile winston's level, or custom levels, will default to info