Syslog about morgan HOT 3 CLOSED

This is the basics for wrapping that module as a standard Node.js WritableStream. As a disclaimer, I haven't tested it, mainly because I'm on Windows and don't have a syslog to point at, but hopefully it helps point in the right directions.

var express = require('express') // npm i express
var morgan = require('morgan') // npm i morgan
var stream = require('stream') // http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html
var syslog = require('syslog') // npm i syslog
var util = require('util')

app.use(morgan('combined', {stream: new SyslogStream()}))

function SyslogStream() {
  stream.Writable.call(this, { decodeStrings: false })
  this.logger = syslog.createClient(514, 'localhost')
}

util.inherits(SyslogStream, stream.Writable)

SyslogStream.prototype._write = function _write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
  this.logger.info(chunk)
  callback()
}

from morgan.

I'm sure it is. Is there a particular Node.js module you are going to use to write to syslog? If you can point me there, I can see if I can craft you an example. Otherwise the basic example is

1. Create yourself a custom WriteStream that writes the output to where you need.
2. Provide that write stream to morgan as the stream option

from morgan.

This is an example of a simple syslog logger. It's opening a connect and then writing to the socket. https://github.com/cloudhead/node-syslog/blob/master/lib/node-syslog.js

from morgan.