NAME

Log::Dispatch::UDP - Log messages to a remote UDP socket

SYNOPSIS

use Log::Dispatch;

my $log = Log::Dispatch->new(
  outputs => [
      [
          'UDP'
          host      => $destination_host,
          port      => $destination_port,
          min_level => 'info',
      ],
  ],
);

$log->info('my message');

DESCRIPTION

This class can be used to write messages to a UDP socket listening on some remote host. The datagrams themselves contain only the messages (there's no real structure to them), so you can easily listen in using netcat.

RECENT CHANGES

Changes for version 0.02 (2026-05-21)

• Documentation
  • New maintainer is Robert Rothenberg perl@rhizomnic.com
  • Updated copyright year
  • Reformatted Changes to follow the Changes spec
  • Added a security policy
  • Added a SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS section
  • Added doap.xml metadata
• Bug Fixes
  • Remove unused code
• Security
  • Increases the minimum versions of some prerequisites
• Tests
  • Added author tests.
• Toolchain
  • Changes to the Dist::Zilla configuration

See the Changes file for more details.

REQUIREMENTS

This module lists the following modules as runtime dependencies:

• Carp
• IO::Socket::INET
• Log::Dispatch::Output
• Socket version 2.026 or later
• namespace::clean
• parent
• perl version v5.8.0 or later
• strict
• warnings

See the cpanfile file for the full list of prerequisites.

INSTALLATION

The latest version of this module (along with any dependencies) can be installed from CPAN with the cpan tool that is included with Perl:

cpan Log::Dispatch::UDP

You can also extract the distribution archive and install this module (along with any dependencies):

cpan .

You can also install this module manually using the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

If you are working with the source repository, then it may not have a Makefile.PL file. But you can use the Dist::Zilla tool in anger to build and install this module:

dzil build
dzil test
dzil install --install-command="cpan ."

For more information, see How to install CPAN modules.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

Log messages are not encrypted. Be wary of logging authentication details such as usernames, passwords or session ids, financial information such as credit cards, or other personally identifying information over unsecured channels.

SUPPORT

Only the latest version of this module will be supported.

This module requires Perl v5.8 or later. Future releases may only support Perl versions released in the last ten (10) years.

Reporting Bugs and Submitting Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Log-Dispatch-UDP/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see SECURITY.md for instructions how to report security vulnerabilities.

SOURCE

The development version is on github at https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Log-Dispatch-UDP and may be cloned from https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Log-Dispatch-UDP.git

AUTHOR

Rob Hoelz rob@hoelz.ro

This module is currently maintained by Robert Rothenberg perl@rhizomnic.com.

CONTRIBUTOR

Robert Rothenberg perl@rhizomnic.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012, 2026 by Rob Hoelz rob@hoelz.ro.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

SEE ALSO

Log::Dispatch