graylogger

Introduction

graylogger is a python script born out of necessity. Use graylogger.py to send GELF-formatted messages to a graylog host. You may log string messages, file contents or read from stdin, add additional fields. Host name and timestamp will be provided automatically.

Usage

The help option -h displays the usage page:

./graylogger.py -h

usage: graylogger.py [options] SERVER MESSAGE

send a message to a graylog server

positional arguments:
  server                graylog server name
  message               message being sent or @FILENAME to read from FILENAME
                          or - to read from StdIn

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,CRITICAL,ERROR}, --level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,CRITICAL,ERROR}
                        log level (defaults to ALERT)
  -f FACILITY, --facility FACILITY
                        facility name (defaults to 'PythonLogger')
  -p PORT, --port PORT  graylog port (defaults to 12201)
  -d DATA, --data DATA  additional data field (key:value)
  -t TEMPLATE, --template TEMPLATE specify log message template
  -n, --nolog           do not log, simulate and show on console

Custom fields

Use the -d (or --data) option to supply additional fields to graylogger. The value consists of the field name and the field value, separated by a comma. If the field name or value contain white space, make sure to quote the fiel data (e.g. -d "Merchant:ACME Inc."). Separator is the first comma, so it is perfectly to valid to have a comma in the field value string. You may provide an arbitrary number of -d options as shown below:

./graylogger.py -l DEBUG -f "ETL" graylog.company.example.com "Start pricing ETL job" -d "Merchant:ACME Inc." -d Database:pricing_prod

Examples

Using a message string

The message parameter is a string. If you have whitespace in the string, be sure to enclose it in quotes:

./graylogger.py -l DEBUG -f "ETL" graylog.company.example.com "Processing startet at `date +%s`"

Piping to graylogger

Using a single dash character - as the message, graylogger will read from standard input:

output_generating_program | ./graylogger.py -l INFO -f "ETL" graylog.company.example.com -

Reading from a file

If the first character of the message parameter is a @, the message will be read from the file name directly following the @, e.g. @result.txt. If needed, a path may be specified (e.g. @/tmp/some/file.log):

./graylogger.py -l WARNING -f "ETL" graylog.company.example.com @warnings.txt

Credits and Thank You

• Sever Banesiu and Daniel Miller for their graypy package hosted at https://github.com/severb/graypy
• Peter Fröhlich for valuable feedback and ideas

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013 Armin Hanisch

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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