syslog

Documentation

Overview

Package syslog provides an io.Writer for a syslog server and WriteMessageFunctions which produce RFC5424 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424) compliant logmessages

Index

• Constants
• func NewWriteHeaderFunc(appname string, severity int) func(ctx context.Context, buf []byte, message string) []byte
• func NewWriter(endpoint string) (io.Writer, error)

Constants

const DEBUG = 7

const ERROR = 3

const INFO = 6

const WARN = 4

Functions

func NewWriteHeaderFunc

func NewWriteHeaderFunc(appname string, severity int) func(ctx context.Context, buf []byte, message string) []byte

NewWriteHeaderFunc returns a function which writes a syslog compliant header to a buffer. Note: The header is terminated with a space

For example

w := syslog.NewWriteHeaderFunc("myapp", syslog.INFO)

assigns an Info writer to w.

func NewWriter

func NewWriter(endpoint string) (io.Writer, error)

NewWriter creates a new syslogwriter which writes to the given endpoint

For example

syslog.NewWriter (localhost:514)

writes to local syslog server listening on port 514