Rainier, Here is some basic code using libcurl for doing what I want:
http://gist.github.com/572182 The data variable is json key/value pairs where I would like to put the syslog fields as in my aforementioned example. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for the help. -Joe On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:24 AM, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > If you know how to do the REST part, integrating this into a plugin is rather > simple. If you provide me working code for that part, I can setup a skeleton > and you just need to tweak the result. > > Rainer > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Williams >> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:43 AM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: [rsyslog] REST output plugin >> >> >> Anyone have an idea of how difficult it would be to create an output >> plugin that uses REST to PUT log lines as JSON to a specific URL? >> Probably something equivalent to the following curl command. >> >> curl -X PUT http://host/ -d '{"app-name": "foo", "msg": "bar", "proc- >> id":"baz", "timestamp":"timestamp:::date-rfc3339", >> "hostname":"hostname", "severity":"syslogseverity-text"}' >> >> Thanks. >> >> -Joe >> >> >> Name: Joseph A. Williams >> Email: [email protected] >> Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/ >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/williamsjoe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com Name: Joseph A. Williams Email: [email protected] Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/williamsjoe _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
