syslog

Overview ¶

Package syslog allows for log messages to be sent via syslog.

Example ¶

NOTE: syslog uses github.com/RackSec/srslog as the stdlib syslog

  is no longer being maintained or added to as of this discussion
  https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13449#issuecomment-161204716

package main

import (
    stdsyslog "log/syslog"

    "github.com/go-playground/log"
    "github.com/go-playground/log/handlers/syslog"
)

func main() {

    sysLog, err := syslog.New("udp", "log.logs.com:4863", stdsyslog.LOG_DEBUG, "")
    if err != nil {
        // handle error
    }

    log.AddHandler(sysLog, log.AllLevels...)

    // Trace
    defer log.WithTrace().Info("took this long")

    log.Debug("debug")
    log.Info("info")
    log.Notice("notice")
    log.Warn("warn")
    log.Error("error")
    // log.Panic("panic") // this will panic
    log.Alert("alert")
    // log.Fatal("fatal") // this will call os.Exit(1)

    // logging with fields can be used with any of the above
    log.WithField("key", "value").Info("test info")
}