retry.js

/*
 * Copyright 2015 Splunk, Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"): you may
 * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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 *
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/**
 * This example shows how to configure retries with SplunkLogger.
 */

// Change to require("splunk-logging").Logger;
var SplunkLogger = require("../index").Logger;

/**
 * Only the token property is required.
 *
 * Here we've set maxRetries to 10,
 * If there are any connection errors the request to Splunk will
 * be retried up to 10 times.
 * The default is 0.
 */
var config = {
    token: "your-token-here",
    url: "https://localhost:8088",
    level: "info",
    maxRetries: 10
};

// Create a new logger
var Logger = new SplunkLogger(config);

Logger.error = function(err, context) {
    // Handle errors here
    console.log("error", err, "context", context);
};

// Define the payload to send to HTTP Event Collector
var payload = {
    // Message can be anything, doesn't have to be an object
    message: {
        temperature: "70F",
        chickenCount: 500
    },
    // Metadata is optional
    metadata: {
        source: "chicken coop",
        sourcetype: "httpevent",
        index: "main",
        host: "farm.local"
    },
    // Severity is also optional
    severity: "info"
};

console.log("Sending payload", payload);
Logger.send(payload, function(err, resp, body) {
    // If successful, body will be { text: 'Success', code: 0 }
    console.log("Response from Splunk", body);
});