Dear developers, contributors, users, etc.

Pedro Reis (@pedromreis) opened a pull request for an UDP output bot, which can be used to send events to a syslog daemon (and then picked up by further processing software).
The implementation has the following features:

Output formats are JSON or delimited by a configurable character
a optional header (at beginning of the line) can be set
`raw` field can be dropped

I can see some potential problems with the 'delimited'-method here:

Strings can contain the delimiter itself, which breaks parsing.
Strings can contain arbitrary characters like \0 or \n which breaks everything

Possible solutions could be:

ignore the problem as it's maybe not relevant
escape all problematic characters (solves problem with \n)
quote strings (solves problem with delimiters in strings)
strip non-printable characters
drop fields with non-printable characters
encode strings in base64

As you may have possible applications for this bot or you have experience with events in syslog, I would appreciate some feedback from you.

Sebastian

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