Gigaom Loggly

• Tags: wordpress, loggly
• Requires at least: 3.9
• Tested up to: 3.9
• License: GPLv2 or later
• License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Description

• Loggly API wrapper.
• Establishes a connection and pushes custom log events to Loggly.
• Search and retrieve specific events.

Usage Notes

We will store all log entries in json format. Entries can be either key-value data pairs, or just message strings.

1. Write a log entry ( tags are optional; default will be 'go-loggly' ):

   • Use an array to store a message consisting of key-value pairs:
     • go_loggly()->inputs( array( 'message' => 'hello world!', 'from' => 'gomtest' ), TAGS )
     • the message will be stored in message and from json fields on loggly.com
   • Log an unstructured string message:
     • go_loggly()->inputs( 'hello world', TAGS )
     • the message will be stored in the message field in json format on loggly.com

2. Retrieve a log entry:

   • Use a simple query string to search for log entries:
     • $response = go_loggly()->search( '*' );
     • $response will be an iterator containing the full results of the search, or a WP_Error.
     • Paging through the results (which are returned by Loggly in pages of 50 rows) is handled by the iterator that the ``go-loggly()->search()` API returns.
   • Use an array to search for log entries with valid search facets:

     • $response = go_loggly()->search(
            array(
                'q'     => '*',
                 'from'  => '-27d',
                 'until' => 'now',
                 'size'  => '4',
             )
         );

     • valid search parameters shown here

Hacking notes

1. The go-loggly plugin only returns json formatted responses.
2. We are not supporting every feature of the Loggly APIs, for example, one could filter the log entries returned by a search call by passing a value for the columns parameter in the retrieval API, but they don't actually support that for json formatted responses.