saclogsend

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saclogsend

A wrapper around Go's syslog package for transmitting logs to a remote syslog server over UDP.

Used by the Go microservices of mailsac.com.

Usage

package main

import (
  "flag"

  "github.com/mailsac/saclogsend"
)

var syslogNet = flag.String("syslog", "127.0.0.1:514", "net location of a syslog server")

var slog *saclogsend.Slog

func main() {
  flag.Parse()
  var err error
  slog, err = saclogsend.New("inbound", *syslogNet)
  if err != nil {
    slog.Err("failed connecting to syslog, %s", err.Error())
  } else {
    slog.Info("syslog connected:" + *syslogNet)
  }
}

License

MIT

Documentation

Index

• type Slog
  • func New(tag, remoteHost string) (logger *Slog, err error)
  • func (slog *Slog) Err(message string, args ...interface{})
  • func (slog *Slog) Info(message string, args ...interface{})

Types

type Slog

type Slog struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Slog is a logger instance. All methods support Printf string replacement.

func New

func New(tag, remoteHost string) (logger *Slog, err error)

New creates a new logger and connects it to the remote host

func (*Slog) Err

func (slog *Slog) Err(message string, args ...interface{})

Err writes an error message to the syslog

func (*Slog) Info

func (slog *Slog) Info(message string, args ...interface{})

Info writes an informational message to the syslog