winston-syslog

A Syslog transport for winston. I started out with https://github.com/indexzero/winston-syslog, but plugged in node-syslog.

Installation

  $ npm install winston 
  $ npm install winston-syslog2

Usage

To use the Syslog transport in winston, you simply need to require it and then either add it to an existing winston logger or pass an instance to a new winston logger:

  var winston = require('winston');
  
  //
  // Requiring `winston-syslog` will expose 
  // `winston.transports.Syslog`
  //
  require('winston-syslog');
  
  winston.add(winston.transports.Syslog, {level: ‘emerg’});

Log Levels

Because syslog only allows a subset of the levels available in winston, levels that do not match will be ignored. Therefore, in order to use winston-syslog effectively, you should indicate to winston that you want to use the syslog levels:

  var winston = require('winston');
  winston.setLevels(winston.config.syslog.levels);

The Syslog transport will only log to the level that are available in the syslog protocol. These are (in increasing order of severity):

• debug
• info
• notice
• warning
• error
• crit
• alert
• emerg

There is currently a bug in winston where the syslog levels are mapped backwards. Because of this, you will probably want to set the log level to ‘emerg’ as seen in the example above.