Graylog Message Sender

GraylogMessageSender.sh

#!/bin/bash

# set your sleep in seconds. remove the sleep line to have no sleep
SLEEP="1"

# ip of your graylog server
GRAYLOG="192.168.1.1"

# loripsum.net API URL
LORIPSUM="https://loripsum.net/api/1/long/plaintext"

while :
	do
	MESSAGE=$(curl -s $LORIPSUM)
	echo '{"version": "1.1","host":"example.org","short_message":"A short message that helps you identify what is going on","full_message":"'$MESSAGE'","level":1,"_user_id":9001,"_some_info":"foo","_some_env_var":"bar"}' | gzip | nc -u -w 1 $GRAYLOG 12201
	sleep $SLEEP # comment this out if you want to sleep
	done