<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>So I'm fairly new to ramping up on GoLang, this is the first formal language I'm attempting to become proficient in. I'm fairly competent with scripting (bash, etc.), and know enough python to be dangerous.</p>
<p>Anyways, on to my potential project:</p>
<p>I have a security project that does not provide a rich enough dataset via the syslog output. I've messed with the products API, and have concluded that there is an API result that contains all the information I want. I'm not sure on how to begin this project, but before I want to begin I want to know if its possible to do the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Monitor a syslog file (LEEF format).</li>
<li>Upon a newline being written, take two fields from the syslog (id/segment_id) and conduct an API lookup.</li>
<li>Take the API results and create a new file with some contents from the original syslog message + some contents of the json API results.</li>
<li>Write this new file (in .csv format) out to a directory where it can be scraped by a log forwarding technology.</li>
</ol>
<p>Let me know what you guys think. Any pointers in the right direction is definitely appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
