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I want to troubleshoot logstash server issue and need to generate syslog message from time to time. Is there a simple way that allows me to connect to a syslog server using TCP and send some arbitrary syslog messages?

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Netcat

Send each line of file.log towards syslog server 127.0.0.1 on port 514

nc -q0 127.0.0.1 514 < file.log

Send a simple string that will generate a single log entry:

echo "message" | nc -q0 127.0.0.1 514

-q0 makes nc exit after sending:

-q seconds after EOF on stdin, wait the specified number of seconds and then quit.

Tcpflood

The tcpflood utility has quite a lot of useful options. Below is a small subset of tcpflood options:

-t  target address (default 127.0.0.1)
-p  target port (default 13514)
-c  number of connections (default 1)
-m  number of messages to send (connection is random)
-M  the message to be sent. Disables all message format options, as only that exact same message is sent.
-I  read specified input file, do NOT generate own test data. The test completes when eof is reached.
-D  randomly drop and re-establish connections. Useful for stress-testing the TCP receiver.
-T  transport to use. Currently supported: "udp", "tcp" (default) Note: UDP supports a single target port, only
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