winston-logstash-udp

A Logstash0 UDP transport for winston1.
Based on a gist2 by mbrevoort3 and inspired by winston-logstash4.

Node

Recommended method:

var winston = require('winston'),
    LogstashUDP = require('winston-logstash-udp').LogstashUDP;

var logger = new(winston.Logger)({
  transports: [
    new(LogstashUDP)({
      port: 9999,
      appName: 'my application name',
      host: '127.0.0.1'
    })
  ]
});

Alternate method:

var winston = require('winston');

//
// Requiring `winston-logstash-udp` will expose
// `winston.transports.LogstashUDP`
//
require('winston-logstash-udp');

winston.add(winston.transports.LogstashUDP, {
  port: 9999,
  appName: 'my application name',
  host: '127.0.0.1'
});

Logstash

input {
  # Sample input over UDP
  udp { format => "json" port => 9999 type => "sample" }
}
output {
  stdout { debug => true debug_format => "json"}
}

npm test

• I get an error when installing node packages "ERR! Error: No compatible version found: assertion-error@'^1.0.1'"

If you are running a version of NodeJS less than or equal to 0.8, upgrading NPM to a version greater than or equal to 1.4.6 should solve this issue.
``` npm install -g npm@~1.4.6 ```
Another way around is to simply avoid installing the development dependencies:
``` npm install --production ```
====================

Author: Craig Thayer

License: MIT

See LICENSE for the full license text.