systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net sd-journal 3 sd-journal APIs for submitting and querying log entries to and from the journal #include <systemd/sd-journal.h> pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd sd-journal.h provides APIs to submit and query log entries. The APIs exposed act both as client for the systemd-journald.service8 journal service and as parser for the journal files on disk. See sd_journal_print3, sd_journal_stream_fd3, sd_journal_open3, sd_journal_next3, sd_journal_get_realtime_usec3, sd_journal_add_match3, sd_journal_seek_head3, sd_journal_get_cursor3, sd_journal_cutoff_realtime_usec3, sd_journal_get_usage3, sd_journal_get_catalog3 and sd_journal_get_fd3 for more information about the functions implemented. Command line access for submitting entries to the journal is available with the systemd-cat1 tool. Command line access for querying entries from the journal is available with the journalctl1 tool. These APIs are implemented as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the libsystemd pkg-config1 file. systemd1, sd_journal_print3, sd_journal_stream_fd3, sd_journal_open3, sd_journal_next3, sd_journal_get_data3, sd_journal_get_realtime_usec3, sd_journal_add_match3, sd_journal_seek_head3, sd_journal_get_cursor3, sd_journal_cutoff_realtime_usec3, sd_journal_get_usage3, sd_journal_get_fd3, sd_journal_query_unique3, sd_journal_get_catalog3, journalctl1, sd-id1283, pkg-config1