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    quick UDP Logstash logging from nodejs
  
        
  
    
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  | var util = require('util'); | |
| var dgram = require('dgram'); | |
| function logstashUDP(host, port, type, message, fields, callback) { | |
| var client = dgram.createSocket('udp4'); | |
| var logObject = { | |
| '@timestamp': (new Date).toISOString(), | |
| type: type, | |
| message: message, | |
| fields: fields | |
| }; | |
| var m = new Buffer(JSON.stringify(logObject)); | |
| client.send(m, 0, m.length, port, host, function(err, bytes) { | |
| client.close(); | |
| callback(err); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| logstashUDP('127.0.0.1', 10001, 'js', 'hello world', {'level': 'debug'}, function(err) { | |
| if(err) { | |
| console.log('Error logging: %s', util.inspect(err)); | |
| } | |
| }); | 
  
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How do we specify an index?