# http-syslog-transformer
This is a tiny service that accepts UDP packets from the [Nginx syslog logger](https://nginx.org/en/docs/syslog.html), parses their data using the default Nginx ["combined" format](https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_log_module.html#log_format), and forwards the data as structured JSON to a VictoriaLogs instance's [stream API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/data-ingestion/#json-stream-api).

The resulting logs have all the usual benefits of structured logging, like ease of querying and fidelity of query results.

For debugging, this command will send a UDP packet in the expected format to an instance of the service running locally:
```
echo '<190>Dec 10 09:57:07 hypnos.hq.kat5.dev nginx_kat5_dev: 10.10.1.54 - - [10/Dec/2025:09:57:07 -0500] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0"' | nc -u -w0 ::1 55555
```

# Generative AI Policy
Every single line of code and text in this project was written by hand. No code produced by generative models is included.