Welcome to Rsyslog

Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. While it started as a regular syslogd, rsyslog has evolved into a kind of swiss army knife of logging, being able to

• accept inputs from a wide variety of sources,
• transform them,
• and output the results to diverse destinations.

Rsyslog has a strong enterprise focus but also scales down to small systems. It supports, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, ElasticSearch, syslog/tcp transport, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part.

Manual

• Installation
  • Installing rsyslog from Package
  • Using Rsyslog Docker Containers
  • Installing rsyslog from Source
  • Installing rsyslog from the source repository
• Configuration
  • Configuration Formats
  • Converting older formats to advanced
  • sysklogd format
  • Basic Structure
  • Templates
  • rsyslog Properties
  • The Property Replacer
  • Filter Conditions
  • RainerScript
  • Actions
  • Input
  • Parser
  • timezone
  • Examples
  • Legacy Configuration Directives
  • rsyslog statistic counter
  • Modules
  • Output Channels
  • Dropping privileges in rsyslog
  • Notes on IPv6 Handling in Rsyslog
  • libgcrypt Log Crypto Provider (gcry)
  • Dynamic Stats
  • Lookup Tables
• rsyslog and containers
  • Container-Features
  • docker specifics
• Troubleshooting
  • Typical Problems
  • General Procedure
• FAQ
  • What is the difference between the main_queue and a queue with a ruleset tied to an input?
• Concepts
  • Understanding rsyslog Queues
  • The Janitor Process
  • Message parsers in rsyslog
  • Multiple Rulesets in rsyslog
  • NetStream Drivers
• Example Use Cases
  • Receiving massive amounts of messages with high performance
• Tutorials
  • Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS (SSL)
  • Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS (SSL) [short version]
  • Writing syslog messages to MySQL, PostgreSQL or any other supported Database
  • Handling a massive syslog database insert rate with Rsyslog
  • Reliable Forwarding of syslog Messages with Rsyslog
  • Recording the Priority of Syslog Messages
  • Failover Syslog Server
  • Log rotation with rsyslog
  • GELF forwarding in rsyslog
  • Log Sampling
  • Random sampling
  • Hash-based Sampling
• Development
  • The rsyslog config data model
  • Objects
  • Debugging
  • rsyslog code style
  • Writing Rsyslog Output Plugins
  • The rsyslog queue object
  • writing rsyslog tests
  • Generic design of a syslogd
• Historical Documents
  • Using php-syslog-ng with rsyslog
  • SSL Encrypting Syslog with Stunnel
  • Legacy Format Samples for Multiple Rulesets
  • Developing rsyslog modules (outdated)

Reference

• RSyslog - History
• Licensing
• How you can Help
• Community Resources
• RSyslog - Features
• Proposals
• Rsyslog Whitepapers
• Free Services for Rsyslog
• Compatibility

Sponsors and Community

Please visit the rsyslog Sponsor’s Page to honor the project sponsors or become one yourself! We are very grateful for any help towards the project goals.

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Contributing to the docs

This documentation is hosted on github. If you find something to be improved, please feel free to fork and file a patch request with your improvements. There is also a Button ‘Edit in GitHub’ on every documentation page beginning with the main docs page that allows easy access.

See also

Help with configuring/using Rsyslog:

• Mailing list - best route for general questions
• GitHub: rsyslog source project - detailed questions, reporting issues that are believed to be bugs with Rsyslog
• Stack Exchange (View, Ask) - experimental support from rsyslog community

See also

Contributing to Rsyslog:

• Source project: rsyslog project README.
• Documentation: rsyslog-doc project README

Copyright 2008-2020 Rainer Gerhards (Großrinderfeld), and Others.