v0.1.0 - Initial Release

🎉 Initial Release

A lightweight, pure Python syslog forwarder with simple YAML configuration.

Features

• Inputs: UDP and TCP listeners with asyncio
• Parsing: RFC 3164 and RFC 5424 message formats
• Filtering: Route by facility, severity, hostname, or message patterns
• Transformations: Remove fields, set fields, mask patterns, replace, prefix/suffix
• Outputs: UDP and TCP forwarders with retry logic
• Monitoring: Prometheus metrics (/metrics) and health check (/health)
• CLI: run, validate, simulate, init, export commands
• Export: Convert config to syslog-ng format
• Docker: Multi-stage build with slim image
• Sandbox: Docker Compose with Prometheus and Grafana
• Dashboard: Grafana dashboard for metrics visualization
• Testing: Performance tests (burst and long-running modes)
• Documentation: Architecture diagrams, user guide, MkDocs site

Installation

pipx install syslog-fwd

Quick Start

syslog-fwd init -o config.yaml
syslog-fwd validate -c config.yaml
syslog-fwd run -c config.yaml

See the User Guide for detailed documentation.