Digioli.co.uk

The source code for this is on Github. Also read the Graylog docker installation docs first.

Graylog has dependencies on Mongo and Elasticsearch which I didn't know. Elasticsearch is cool.

Build the node image with:

docker build -t bunyan-node .

Then run docker compose up build.

Testing the endpoint using http is easy:

curl -XPOST http://localhost:12201/gelf -p0 -d '{"short_message":"Hello there", "host":"example.org", "facility":"test", "_foo":"bar"}'

However, as we are using streams you have to set up Graylog to accept UDP streams. For this example I've used a module called gelf-stream.

const http = require('http');
const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const gelfStream = require('gelf-stream');

const stream = gelfStream.forBunyan('graylog')
const log = bunyan.createLogger({
  name: 'myapp',
  streams: [{
    type: 'raw',
    stream,
  }]});
http.createServer((req, res) => {
  const then = Date.now();
  log.info(Hello ${then});
  res.end(Hello ${then});
}).listen(8001);

Voila.

References

Graylog at docker hub
Bunyan Node module
Rising stack
Real time data

Logging to Graylog from Node using Bunyan

References