# Integrate custom collector

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/integrate-custom-collector/25787>\
**Category:** Graylog Add-ons\
**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/integrate-custom-collector/25787 "2022-09-20T08:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robert1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/48db29/32.png) [@Robert1](https://community.graylog.org/u/Robert1)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/integrate-custom-collector/25787/1 "2022-09-20T08:52:39Z")

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Hi,  
ist there documentation on how to write and integrate custom collectors to sidecars?

we are running graylog 4.2.9. We have \> 10 windows machines with sidecar installed to collect logs from files. Some applications on these machines locally wirte logs to sqlite databases. I would like to write an application that transfers the logs from the sqlite to graylog. I think it makes sense to integrate that application as a collector to be able to user graylog/sidcar to deploy configuration.

Please let me know if that makes sense and how to approach.  
Thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![tmacgbay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/tmacgbay/32/3878_2.png) [@tmacgbay](https://community.graylog.org/u/tmacgbay)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/integrate-custom-collector/25787/2 "2022-09-20T14:38:00Z")

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In the past people have talked about dumping the database via script and having that shipped to Graylog but I am sure that there would be many people interested in something with Sidecar. You might have better luck asking in Github: [GitHub - Graylog2/collector-sidecar: Manage log collectors through Graylog](https://github.com/Graylog2/collector-sidecar)

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**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:** [October 4, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/integrate-custom-collector/25787/3 "2022-10-04T14:38:43Z")

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