When recently writing an intel-syslog library, I noticed that somehow, npm was lacking a sane syslog library. The popular one, node-syslog, is a giant singleton, meaning it’s impossible to have more than one instance available. That felt wrong. Plus, it’s a native module, and for something so simple, I’d rather not have to compile anything.

That’s where syslogger comes in. It’s pure JavaScript, and has a simple API to allow you to create as many instances as you’d like.

var SysLogger = require('syslogger');
var logger = new SysLogger({
  name: 'myApp',
  facility: 'user',
  address: '127.0.01',
  port: 514
});

logger.log(severity, message);
// or
logger.notice(message); //etc

Enjoy.

http://seanmonstar.com/post/72018297115