[syslog-ng] Module development guide

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 26 janvier 2016 08:20 +0100, "Scheidler, Balázs" <balazs.scheidler at balabit.com> :

> Well, LogWriter assumes a specific semantics from the underlying
> transport. Async APIs usually give you access to the fd, and the
> needed I/O event mask. If that's the case, you can probably integrate
> it to syslog-ng's mainloop, which is ivykis based (an async event
> lib).

librdkafka is able to give access to the underlying file descriptor, so
it should be OK. I thought that LogWriter assumed that you'll have to
format packets yourself, hence my question.

> Can you explain your use-case why the existing kafka destination is
> not good enough? Is it performance, is it java?

It's Java and its memory footprint.
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