Example using winston-graylog2

Get a local Graylog running in docker-compose

We use docker-compose to get a test Graylog instance up and running locally.

I use pipenv to keep docker-compose a bit safer, so if you don't have docker-compose installed globally, but do have pipenv:

pipenv install
pipenv shell
docker-compose up
# just type `exit` at the pipenv shell to exit the virtual environment

If you do have docker-compose installed globally, just do docker-compose up.

When it's done pulling all the images and it's into it's logging phase, you can open a web browser to http://localhost:9000 and login using admin/admin. You'll want to dismiss the User Guide.

Launch the proof-of-concept

In another terminal (unless you daemonized docker-compose).

npm install
npm run start

Check that logs are appearing in Graylog.

You should be able to refresh the Graylog page (or set it to autorefresh) and you'll start seeing new Graylog messages about every 3 seconds.