Output Components

Output Components provide methods for writing the processed log data somewhere for analysis or further processing.

Standard Output

Stdout is an output component that writes to standard output. There are no required or optional configuration options.

Debug

Debug is an output component that writes to standard output with some debug information.

Writes both the Timestamp and the Message field.

Configuration

• Optional
  • print-fields - (true|false) - Whether to print all the fields of the log entry or just the ‘message’ field.

Nats

Nats is an output component that writes to a Nats queue.

Configuration

• Required:
  • url - URL of the nats server.
  • publish - Output queue to publish the messages on.
• Optional:
  • encoding - The encoding to use (defaults to json) (json|gob|default).
  • servers - List of alternate Nats servers.

elasticsearch-http

Elasticsearch HTTP is an output component that writes to an elasticsearch HTTP server.

Configuration

• Required:
  • url - URL of the elasticsearch server
• Optional:
  • index - Elasticsearch index (defaults to quicklog)
  • type - type of Elasticsearch entry (defaults to ‘entry’)