# Best way to "forward" logs to another system for additional routing/alerting **URL:** \ **Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\ **Created:** [March 21, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665 "2018-03-21T17:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rayterrill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rayterrill](https://community.graylog.org/u/rayterrill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665/1 "2018-03-21T17:11:50Z")
The Graylog alerting mechanisms in the current release are not super flexible. We’ve built an alert that sends messages from a stream to a HTTP callback which is running some NodeJS code for additional routing and alerting. I was just wondering if there was a better way. I looked at the Graylog Outputs, but there doesn’t appear to be a HTTP output or GELF HTTP output available in either core or the marketplace. Is anyone else doing this and have a slicker approach that I’m not thinking of? Cheers, -Ray ---
**Author:** ![jochen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jochen/32/8_2.png) [@jochen](https://community.graylog.org/u/jochen)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 8:16am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665/2 "2018-03-22T08:16:18Z")
> [@rayterrill](#): > > I looked at the Graylog Outputs, but there doesn’t appear to be a HTTP output or GELF HTTP output available in either core or the marketplace. You can always write your own plugins for these. ---
**Author:** ![rayterrill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rayterrill](https://community.graylog.org/u/rayterrill)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665/3 "2018-03-22T14:05:46Z")
Right. But unfortunately my Java skills are nonexistent. Would it be worth putting in a feature request for an HTTP Stream Output or maybe a HTTP GELF Output to be added to Core? I think that could be beneficial for a ton of people. It sort of already exists at the alert notification level and I’m using it there, just not at the Streams level. ---
**Author:** ![jochen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jochen/32/8_2.png) [@jochen](https://community.graylog.org/u/jochen)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665/4 "2018-03-22T14:23:03Z")
> [@rayterrill](#): > > Would it be worth putting in a feature request for an HTTP Stream Output or maybe a HTTP GELF Output to be added to Core? Please contact our sales team via [https://www.graylog.org/contact-sales](https://www.graylog.org/contact-sales) or [sales@graylog.com](mailto:sales@graylog.com) to discuss the possibility to sponsor a feature for one of the next Graylog versions. ---
**Author:** ![rayterrill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rayterrill](https://community.graylog.org/u/rayterrill)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665/5 "2018-03-22T14:32:42Z")
I’ll see what I can do with that internally. We’re government so that could be a little tricky. I may put a feature request in on github in the meantime as a placeholder. Thanks for all your help mate. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/best-way-to-forward-logs-to-another-system-for-additional-routing-alerting/4665/6 "2018-04-05T14:32:50Z")
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