Description¶

sd-journal.h provides APIs to submit and query log entries. The APIs exposed act both as client for the systemd-journald.service(8) journal service and as parser for the journal files on disk.

See sd_journal_print(3), sd_journal_stream_fd(3), sd_journal_open(3), sd_journal_next(3), sd_journal_get_realtime_usec(3), sd_journal_add_match(3), sd_journal_seek_head(3), sd_journal_enumerate_fields(3), sd_journal_get_cursor(3), sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec(3), sd_journal_get_cutoff_monotonic_usec(3), sd_journal_get_usage(3), sd_journal_get_catalog(3), sd_journal_get_fd(3), sd_journal_has_runtime_files(3) and sd_journal_has_persistent_files(3) for more information about the functions implemented.

Command line access for submitting entries to the journal is available with the systemd-cat(1) tool. Command line access for querying entries from the journal is available with the journalctl(1) tool.

Thread safety¶

Functions that operate on the sd_journal object are thread agnostic — given sd_journal pointer may only be used from one thread at a time, but multiple threads may use multiple such objects safely. Other functions — those that are used to send entries to the journal, like sd_journal_print(3) and similar, or those that are used to retrieve global information like sd_journal_stream_fd(3) and sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id(3) — are thread-safe and may be called from multiple threads in parallel.

Notes¶

These APIs are implemented as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.

See Also¶

systemd(1), sd_journal_print(3), sd_journal_stream_fd(3), sd_journal_open(3), sd_journal_next(3), sd_journal_get_data(3), sd_journal_get_realtime_usec(3), sd_journal_add_match(3), sd_journal_seek_head(3), sd_journal_enumerate_fields(3), sd_journal_get_cursor(3), sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec(3), sd_journal_get_cutoff_monotonic_usec(3), sd_journal_get_usage(3), sd_journal_get_fd(3), sd_journal_query_unique(3), sd_journal_get_catalog(3), sd_journal_has_runtime_files(3), sd_journal_has_persistent_files(3), journalctl(1), sd-id128(3), pkg-config(1)