Feature Request: Output logs to network connection

[asachs01]

As a flog user, I'd like to be able to use it to send test logs to a log management system like Splunk or Graylog. Presently, I have to output to a file, or try and netcat the output to a specific endpoint, which seems rather cumbersome. Adding the ability to directly output to a given endpoint (like an IP/hostname) would shorten the amount of steps I need to take to send flogs logs off.

[mingrammer]

You can output the logs to stdout (default mode), and pipe the output to network connections.

$ flog -n 100 | nc ...

[asachs01]

@mingrammer Right, completely doable and it's what I'm currently doing. But it would be nice to have a --host sort of option to be able to specify a remote host rather than using nc.

[lebe-dev]

@asachs01 this feature will add unnecessary complexity. if you don't want to use pipes with netcat, you can wrap it into a bash script with arguments.