redis

The Redis module has only one driver, which is the Redis() destination driver. The Redis() driver sends messages as name-value pairs to a Redis key-value store.

Status

Architecture	Status
x86	Works
ARM	Works

Testing

Redis Setup

To test this driver, we need to set up a Redis store first. You can use Homebrew to brew install all the necessary dependencies.

To be able to successfully test this driver, we need to install Redis and libHIREDIS. To install all these, we need to do the following:

$ brew install redis $ brew install hiredis

To run Redis in the background, use:

$ brew services start redis

Once we do this, we can use the Redis CLI to monitor for messages that we will send using syslog-ng. To do this, use the monitor command on Redis CLI.\

$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> MONITOR

Note: Localhost on port 6379 is the default setting for redis.

Configuration File Used

@version: 3.33
@include "scl.conf"

options {
    stats-freq(10);
    time-reopen(10);
};

source custom
{
    example-msg-generator(
        num(20)
        freq(5)
        template("Message to Redis")
    );
};

destination d_redis {
    redis(
        host("localhost")
        port(6379)
        command("HINCRBY", "hosts", "${HOST}", "${MESSAGE}")
    );
};

log {
    source(custom);
    destination(d_redis);
};

Proof