rfc5424-logging-handler 1.2.1

An up-to-date, RFC5424-Compliant syslog handler for the Python logging framework

An up-to-date, RFC 5424 compliant syslog handler for the Python logging framework.

• Free software: BSD License

• Homepage: https://github.com/jobec/rfc5424-logging-handler

• Documentation: http://rfc5424-logging-handler.readthedocs.org/

Features

• RFC 5424 Compliant.

• Python Logging adapter for easier sending of rfc5424 specific fields.

• No need for complicated formatting strings.

Installation

Python package:

pip install rfc5424-logging-handler

Usage

After installing you can use this package like this:

import logging
from rfc5424logging import Rfc5424SysLogHandler

logger = logging.getLogger('syslogtest')
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

sh = Rfc5424SysLogHandler(address=('10.0.0.1', 514))
logger.addHandler(sh)

logger.info('This is an interesting message', extra={'msgid': 'some_unique_msgid'})

This will send the following message to the syslog server:

<14>1 2020-01-01T05:10:20.841485+01:00 myserver syslogtest 5252 some_unique_msgid - \xef\xbb\xbfThis is an interesting message

Note the UTF8 Byte order mark (BOM) preceding the message. While required by RFC 5424 section 6.4 if the message is known to be UTF-8 encoded, there are still syslog receivers that cannot handle it. To bypass this limitation, when initializing the handler Class, set the msg_as_utf8 parameter to False like this:

sh = Rfc5424SysLogHandler(address=('10.0.0.1', 514), msg_as_utf8=False)

For more examples, have a look at the documentation

Changelog

1.2.1 - 2018/09/21

Fixed

• #21 Registered structured data IDs where also suffixed with an enterprise ID.

Added

• #22 Add utc_timestamp parameter to allow logging in UTC time.

1.1.2 - 2018/02/03

Fixed

• #15 When logging to /dev/log with python 2.7, the connection was permanently lost when the local syslog server was restarted.

• #16 The extra info of a message did not overwrite that of the logging adapter instance.

1.1.1 - 2017/12/08

Fixed

• #14 Fixed handling of extra parameter in logging adapter.

1.1.0 - 2017/11/24

Added

• The msg parameter for the logger handler can now be absent allowing “structured data only” messages.

Fixed

• Correct the automatic value of the hostname when the value is anything other then NILVALUE

• The syslog message is now empty in conformance with RFC5424 when it’s value is None or an empty string.

1.0.3 - 2017/10/08

No functional changes. Only documentation was changed.

Added

• Logstash configuration example for RFC5424.

Changed

• Moved most of the documentation out of the readme file.

1.0.2 - 2017/08/31

Fixed

• Package description rendering on PyPi due to bug pypa/wheel#189

1.0.1 - 2017/08/30

Added

• #12: It’s now possible to send syslog messages as MSG-ANY which suppresses the UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) when sending messages.

1.0.0 - 2017/05/30

Changed

• #10: Procid, appname and hostname can now be set per message, both with the handler as well as with the adapter

Note

This release has a slight change in behaviour. Setting one of the appnama, hostname of procid message to None or an empty string will cause it to be filled in automatically. Previously, setting it to an empty string caused it to be set to NILVALUE (a - ). You now need to set it explicilty to NILVALUE if you want to omit it from the message.

0.2.0 - 2017/01/27

Fixed

• Better input handling

• Better sanitizing of invalid input

0.1.0 - 2017/01/22

Added

• #4: Adapter class to make it easier to log message IDs or structured data

• Logging of EMERGENCY, ALERT and NOTICE syslog levels by using the adapter class

• Extensive test suite

0.0.2 - 2017/01/18

Added

• #5 Introduced Python 2.7 compatibility

0.0.1 - 2017/01/11

• Initial release