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      <h1 id="gelf-appender">GELF appender</h1>

<p>The GELF appender supports sending log messages over UDP to a <a href="http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.2/pages/gelf.html">GELF</a> compatible server such as <a href="https://www.graylog.org">Graylog</a>. It uses node’s core UDP support and does