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

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.

If you like rsyslog, you might want to lend us a helping hand. It doesn’t require a lot of time - even a single mouse click helps. Learn How you can Help.

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:

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