this file creates a sample log messages and sends them to /dev/log. I use this to test syslog config.

make_logs.py

import logging
import logging.handlers
import time
my_logger = logging.getLogger('testlogger')
my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

#add formatter to the handler
formatter = logging.Formatter(
    'SAMPLE_CORE_KAMUSTA: { "loggerName":"%(name)s", "timestamp":"%(asctime)s", "pathName":"%(pathname)s", '
    '"logRecordCreationTime":"%(created)f", "functionName":"%(funcName)s", "levelNo":"%(levelno)s", '
    '"lineNo":"%(lineno)d", "time":"%(msecs)d", "levelName":"%(levelname)s", "message":"%(message)s"}')

handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address = '/dev/log')

handler.formatter = formatter


my_logger.addHandler(handler)

while True:
    time.sleep(1)
    my_logger.debug('sample-log-script [sample][debug] this is debug')
    my_logger.info('sample-log-script [sample][info] this is info')
    my_logger.warn('sample-log-script [sample][warn] this is warn')
    my_logger.error('sample-log-script [sample][error] this is error')
    my_logger.critical('sample-log-script [sample][critical] this is error')