Tiny Python Syslog Server

pysyslog.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

## Tiny Syslog Server in Python.
##
## This is a tiny syslog server that is able to receive UDP based syslog
## entries on a specified port and save them to a file.
## That's it... it does nothing else...
## There are a few configuration parameters.

LOG_FILE = 'youlogfile.log'
HOST, PORT = "0.0.0.0", 514

#
# NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS BELOW HERE...
#

import logging
import SocketServer

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(message)s', datefmt='', filename=LOG_FILE, filemode='a')

class SyslogUDPHandler(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):

	def handle(self):
		data = bytes.decode(self.request[0].strip())
		socket = self.request[1]
		print( "%s : " % self.client_address[0], str(data))
		logging.info(str(data))

if __name__ == "__main__":
	try:
		server = SocketServer.UDPServer((HOST,PORT), SyslogUDPHandler)
		server.serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5)
	except (IOError, SystemExit):
		raise
	except KeyboardInterrupt:
		print ("Crtl+C Pressed. Shutting down.")

Thanks, I've used it as a syslog frontend to redis.

https://github.com/iobear/beewatch/blob/master/bin/psyslog.py

Great Script BTW
Question, instead of Crtl+C to end, how would you have it end in 30 minutes?

Thank's for sharing nice code. 😃

Thanks!

Thanks!!

I am using rsyslog on centos as a client .
But I can't get message with your code.
Please help me.
: )

Excellent! just what I needed...

Thank you:)

Nice one!

Thanks!

Thanks for the initiative. How do we add TLS support to this?

Can you explain why would I use this instead of the real syslog facility?

You can add utf-8 encoding to improve the server:

def handle(self):
    data = bytes.decode(self.request[0].strip(), encoding="utf-8")
    socket = self.request[1]
    print( "%s : " % self.client_address[0], str(data.encode("utf-8")))
    logging.info(str(data.encode("utf-8")))

It worked very well when I needed a syslog server for some tests. Thanks for sharing.

Cute. If you are in python3, simply change SocketServer to socketserver. Official reference here

I developed a Python 3 implementation of a simple UDP syslog server which inserts the recieved messages into a MariaDB or MySQL database. https://github.com/choeffer/py3syslog
Your piece of code was helping me a lot to get started so I share mine also.

Thx, using it for routers monitoring :p

Nice thanks, will use it to trigger another script after syslog message is sent through EEM script.

I am just beginner in codding and my apoligise if I miss out the point but can someone explain me how to receive logs from regarding system? Don't you need to add this code in somewhere?

logging.getLogger()

Thanks for this useful script to help to receive the syslog and send to Apache Kafka.