Send logs over TCP — tcp_appender • log4r

Append messages to arbitrary TCP destinations.

Usage

tcp_appender(
  host,
  port,
  layout = default_log_layout(),
  timeout = getOption("timeout")
)

Arguments

host: Hostname for the socket connection.
port: Port number for the socket connection.
layout: A layout function taking a level parameter and additional arguments corresponding to the message.
timeout: Timeout for the connection.

Value

An appender: a function with the interface function(level, ...) that writes its arguments to the socket and returns invisible(NULL).

See also

appenders for more information on Appenders, and base::socketConnection() for the underlying connection object used by tcp_appender().

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Send messages to a listener on localhost.
appender <- tcp_appender("localhost", port = 8080)
appender("INFO", "Message.")
} # }