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🌲 A transport for reformatting pino logs into standard syslog format
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# pino-syslog



**Lead maintainer:** [jsumners](https://github.com/jsumners)



*pino-syslog* is a so called "transport" for the [pino][pino] logger. *pino-syslog* receives *pino* logs from `stdin`

and transforms them into [RFC3164][rfc3164] or [RFC5424][rfc5424] (syslog) formatted messages which are written to

`stdout`. The default output format is RFC5424.



This transport **does not** send messages to a remote, or even local, syslog compatible server. It merely reformats the

logs into syslog compatible strings. To send logs to a syslog server, use the [pino-socket][pino-socket] transport.

For example:



```bash

$ node your-app.js | pino-syslog | pino-socket -a syslog.example.com

```



[pino]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pino

[rfc3164]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164

[rfc5424]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424

[pino-socket]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pino-socket



## RFC3164



This RFC mandates that the maximum number of bytes that a syslog message may be

is `1024`. Thus, *pino-syslog* will do one of two things when this limit is exceeded:



1. Output a JSON error log, with syslog header, that includes the original log's `time` and `level` properties, a

  `originalSize` property set to the number of bytes the original log message consumed, and a `msg` property set to

  "message exceeded syslog 1024 byte limit".

2. Truncate the message to fit within the 1024 byte limit when the `messageOnly` configuration option is set to `true`.



This means you *can* lose data if your log messages are too large. If that is to be the case, you should investigate

the `includeProperties` option to reduce your log size. But, really, you should investigate what it is you are logging.



## RFC5424



This RFC does not limit the message size except to say that the ***receiver*** may impose a maximum. Thus, *pino-syslog*

does not impose a length limit when conforming to this RFC. There are a couple of things to note, though:



1. We do not currently support the structured data portion of the log header. This section of each log is always `-`.

2. If the data to be logged includes `req.id` then it will be used as the message id portion of the log. For example,

  the data `{req: {id: '1234'}}` would have '1234' as the message id in the resulting formatted log.



These caveats may be configurable in a later version.



## Example



Given the log:



```json

{"pid":94473,"hostname":"MacBook-Pro-3","level":30,"msg":"hello world","time":1459529098958,"v":1}

```



*pino-syslog* will write out:



```

<134>1 2016-04-01T16:44:58Z MacBook-Pro-3 - 94473 - - {"pid":94473,"hostname":"MacBook-Pro-3","level":30,"msg":"hello world","time":1459529098958,"v":1}

```



Or, in RFC3164 mode:



```

<134>Apr  1 16:44:58 MacBook-Pro-3 none[94473]: {"pid":94473,"hostname":"MacBook-Pro-3","level":30,"msg":"hello world","time":1459529098958,"v":1}

```



Putting it all together:



```bash

$ echo '{"pid":94473,"hostname":"MacBook-Pro-3","level":30,"msg":"hello world","time":1459529098958,"v":1}' | node pino-syslog                                                       [s:0 l:8025]

<134>1 2016-04-01T16:44:58Z MacBook-Pro-3 - 94473 - - {"pid":94473,"hostname":"MacBook-Pro-3","level":30,"msg":"hello world","time":1459529098958,"v":1}

```



## Usage as Pino Transport



You can use this module as a [pino transport](https://getpino.io/#/docs/transports?id=v7-transports) like so:



```js

const pino = require('pino')

const transport = pino.transport({

  target: 'pino-syslog',

  level: 'info',

  options: {

    enablePipelining: false, // optional (default: true)

    destination: 1, // optional (default: stdout)

    ... // other options

  }

})

pino(transport)

```



The options object's properties are [described below](#configuration).

There is some extra properties:



+ `enablePipelining`: it must be set to `false` to disable the pino transport pipeline.

+ `destination`: it must be an integer which is used to specify the destination of the log messages. `1` is stdout, `2` is stderr and others numbers must be a file descriptor. This option is used only when the pipelining is disabled.



### Pipelining



This feature is enabled by default and let you to submit the `pino-syslog` output to another destination at your choice, such as a `socket` using the `pino-socket` module:



```js

const transport = pino.transport({

  pipeline: [

    {

      target: 'pino-syslog',

      level: 'info',

      options: {

        ... // other options

      }

    },

    {

      target: 'pino-socket',

      options: {

        mode: 'tcp',

        address: '127.0.0.1',

        port: 8001

      }

    }

  ]

})

pino(transport)

```



## Usage as Pino Legacy Transport



Pino supports a [legacy transport interface](https://getpino.io/#/docs/transports?id=legacy-transports)

that is still supported by this module.



### Install



You should install *pino-syslog* globally so that it can be used as a utility:



```bash

$ npm install --production -g pino-syslog

```



## Configuration



*pino-syslog* supports configuration using option flags and/or via a JSON file. The option flags take precedence over the JSON configuration. The default options are:



```json

{

  "modern": true,

  "appname": "none",

  "cee": false,

  "facility": 16,

  "includeProperties": [],

  "messageOnly": false,

  "tz": "UTC",

  "newline": false,

  "structuredData": "-",

  "sync": false

}

```



This also shows the full structure of a configuration file, which can be loaded using `--config ` (`-c `).



### Option flags



+ `--modern` (`-m`) (boolean): indicates if RFC5424 (`true`) or RFC3164 (`false`) should be used.

+ `--appname` (`-a`) (string): sets the name of the application in the 'TAG' portion of the syslog header.

+ `--cee` (boolean): denotes whether or not to prefix the message field with `@cee: `. This will only work if

  `messageOnly` is `false`.

+ `--facility` (`-f`) (number): a valid [facility number][facility], `[0 - 23]`.

+ `--includeProperties` (`-p`) (array): a list of property names from the original *pino* log to include in the formatted

  message. This is only applicable if `messageOnly` is `false`.

+ `--messageOnly` (`-mo`) (boolean): indicates if the message field should contain only the `msg` property of the *pino* log, or

  if it should be stringified JSON.

+ `--tz` (string): any [valid timezone string][tzstring] that [luxon][luxon] will recognize. The timestamp field of the

  syslog header will be sent according to this setting.

+ `--newline` (`-n`) (boolean): terminate with a newline

+ `--structuredData` (`-s`) (string): [structured data](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.3) to send with an RFC5424 message.

+ `--sync` (`-sy`) (boolean): perform writes synchronously



[facility]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1.1

[tzstring]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

[luxon]: https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/zones?id=specifying-a-zone



## License



[MIT License](http://jsumners.mit-license.org/)