winston-transport-splunk v0.0.7

winston-transport-splunk

A Splunk transport for winston.

Usage

    import winston from 'winston';
    import { Splunk } from 'winston-transport-splunk';
    
    
    cconst createTransports = (options) => {
        const transports = [];
        
        //
        // Create console and other transports
        //
        
        transports.push(new Splunk(options.splunk));
        return transports;
    };
     
    const options = {  
        console:{  
            level:'debug'
        },
        splunk:{  
            url: YOUR_SPLUNK_URL,
            index: YOUR_SPLUNK_INDEX,
            token: YOUR_SPLUNK_TOKEN,
            host: YOUR_SPLUNK_HOST,
            source: YOUR_SPLUNK_SOURCE,
            sourcetype:'api_json',
            maxRetries:0,
            level:'debug'
        }
    }
         
    const createLogger = options => winston.createLogger({
        levels: winston.config.npm.levels,
        format: winston.format.simple(),
        transports: createTransports(options)
    });

The Splunk transport is based on splunk-logging, and used winston-elasticsearch as a reference.

configuration options

• source: The value used for the "source" metadata passed to Splunk.
• sourcetype: The value used for the "sourcetype" metadata passed to Splunk.
• batchInterval: The number of milliseconds to wait before flushing logs.
• maxBatchCount: The number of logs to batch before flushing.
• maxBatchSize: The size of the batch, in bytes, to accumulate before flushing.
• maxRetries: The number of times the transport should retry sending failed batches.
• url: The url used to connect to the Splunk. This is required
• index: The Splunk index to log to.
• token: The token used for connecting to the Splunk. This is required

This module uses splunk-logging to send events to Splunk, more details of configuration options can be found at splunk-logging.

Installation

Installing winston-transport-splunk

  $ npm install --save winston-transport-splunk

Run Linting

  npm run lint

Run Tests

Tests will be added soon.

  npm run test

Author: Sean Xiong @ Imaginationworks

License: MIT