NAME

Mojolicious::Plugin::Syslog - A plugin for enabling a Mojolicious app to log to syslog

SYNOPSIS

use Mojolicious::Lite;
plugin syslog => {facility => 'local0'};

DESCRIPTION

Mojolicious::Plugin::Syslog is a Mojolicious plugin for making Mojo::Log use Sys::Syslog in addition (or instead) of file logging.

This can be useful when starting Hypnotoad through Systemd, but want simple logging of error messages to syslog.

This plugin can also be used for only access logging, as an alternative to Mojolicious::Plugin::AccessLog. This is done by forcing "enable" to "0" and enabling "access_log".

METHODS

register

$app->plugin(syslog => \%config);
$self->register($app, \%config);

Used to register the plugin in your Mojolicious application. Available config parameters are:

• access_log

  Used to enable logging of access to resources with a route enpoint. This means that static files will not be logged, even if this option is enabled. It is also possible to set the default value using the MOJO_SYSLOG_ACCESS_LOG environment variable.

  This can be "v1", "v2" or a custom format. The default is currently "v1", but that might change in the future.

  .---------------------------------------.
  | Version | Format                      |
  |---------|-----------------------------|
  | v1      | %H "%P" (%I) %C %M (%Ts)    |
  | v2      | %R %H %U %C "%F" "%A" (%Ts) |
  '---------------------------------------'

  Supported log variables:

  .----------------------------------------------------.
  | Variable | Value                                   |
  |----------|-----------------------------------------|
  | %A       | User-Agent request header               |
  | %C       | Response status code, ex "200"          |
  | %F       | Referer request header                  |
  | %H       | HTTP request method, ex "GET", "POST"   |
  | %I       | Mojolicious request ID                  |
  | %M       | Response message, ex OK                 |
  | %P       | Request URL path                        |
  | %R       | Remote address                          |
  | %T       | Time in seconds for this request        |
  | %U       | Absolute request URL, without user info |
  '----------------------------------------------------'

• enable

  Need to be true to activate this plugin. Will use the "MOJO_SYSLOG_ENABLE" environment variable or default to true if "mode" in Mojolicious is something else than "development"

• facility

  The syslog facility to use. Default to "MOJO_SYSLOG_FACILITY" environment variable or default to "user".

  The default is EXPERIMENTAL.

• ident

  The syslog ident to use. Default to "MOJO_SYSLOG_IDENT" environment variable or "moniker" in Mojolicious.

• only_syslog

  Set this to true to disabled the default Mojo::Log logging to file/stderr.

AUTHOR

Jan Henning Thorsen

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2019, Jan Henning Thorsen.

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.