Establishing Graylog Connection and Logger Setup

This code defines a function named graylog_connect that establishes a connection to the Graylog log server and sets up a logger to send log records to Graylog.

Technology Stack : The packages and technologies used in this code include graypy for Graylog integration and the Python logging module for log management.

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def graylog_connect(host, port, protocol='tcp'):
    from graypy import transport
    from graypy import formatters
    import logging

    # Set up a logger
    logger = logging.getLogger('GraylogLogger')
    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

    # Create a new transport instance
    transport_instance = transport.TCPTransport(host, port)

    # Create a JSON formatter
    json_formatter = formatters.JSONFormatter()

    # Create a handler that sends log records to Graylog
    handler = transport.TransportHandler(transport_instance, formatter=json_formatter)

    # Add the handler to the logger
    logger.addHandler(handler)

    return logger