BedrockStreaming / HttpToGelf

A node.js http to gelf logger

HttpToGelf

A node.js http to gelf logger

usage

send a message

POST /gelf/log/{myapp}/{mycategory}/?token=xxx
add Content-Type: /application/json to the headers

compute the token

md5(app + category + secretKey);

secretKey is located in config/ENV.json according to the {app}

message generated

The json contained in the request body will be merge in the message.

POST on /gelf/log/myapp/mycategory/ with this body :

{ 
  "charlie": "jesuischarlie" ,
  "test": "raoul"
}

will generate this gelf message :

{
           "from" => "HttpToGelf - dev",
          "level" => 6,
        "version" => "1.0",
           "host" => "MacBook-Pro-de-Olivier-2.local",
       "@version" => "1",
     "@timestamp" => "2015-01-08T15:09:16.257Z",
    "source_host" => "127.0.0.1",
        "message" => "{\"object\":\"message from application myapp, from category  mycategory\",\"payload\":\"{\\\"charlie\\\":\\\"jesuischarlie\\\",\\\"test\\\":\\\"raoul\\\"}\",\"app\":\"myapp\",\"category\":\"mycategory\",\"test\":\"raoul\",\"charlie\":\"jesuischarlie\"}",
         "object" => "message from application myapp, from category mycategory",
        "payload" => "{\"charlie\":\"jesuischarlie\",\"test\":\"raoul\"}",
            "app" => "myapp",
       "category" => "mycategory",
           "test" => "raoul",
        "charlie" => "jesuischarlie"
}