modern-syslog

[atis--]

Hi!

I was wondering what are your thoughts on pointing prospective syslog (via bunyan) users to the modern-syslog library made by StrongLoop?

Recent build problems with the node-bunyan-syslog library (the only linked syslog solution currently) prompted me to look at other things.

What's interesting is that, according to modern-syslog README, the <syslog.h> calls may block, and so cause a slowdown under load. They work around this by using AsyncWorker utilities.

Since modern-syslog also provides a stream interface, using it with bunyan is dead simple:

const bunyan = require('bunyan');
const syslog = require('modern-syslog');

const log = bunyan.createLogger({
    name: 'myapp',
    stream: syslog.Stream(syslog.LOG_WARNING, syslog.LOG_USER),
    level: 'warn'
});

log.warn({ your: 'data' }, 'Hello, world!');

[trentm]

@atis-- I've moved the "third-party streams" content to a wiki page so it can be more easily edited by others (I'm often a bottleneck). I'd love if you could add a link to that syslog module here: https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan/wiki/Awesome-Bunyan and then perhaps also a link to a new wiki page with the above content showing how to use it with Bunyan (or even just a link back to this issue).

[atis--]

Ok!