Custom Handlers

Why would you want to create your own handlers?

Well, you tell me!

OK, I suppose I can provide a few reasons. How about:

• sending log entries to:
  • remote system log servers
  • another program (local or remote) for live analysis, or some other processing
• storing log entries:
  • in a specific file format (xml, json, csv)
  • in a database

Actually, the “file format” option above may only need a custom formatter. I’ll leave that decision up to you, if you need one of them.