syslog receiver
2 complete collector configs on this site use the syslog receiver. Each is a whole file, validated with otelcol-contrib v0.161.0.
- Receive syslog (RFC 5424 and RFC 3164)Accept modern and legacy syslog on one collector, from network gear and hosts that speak nothing else.Logs
- Firewall syslog to a SIEM, with PII maskedFirewall and VPN syslog into the SIEM with user names pseudonymised and e-mail addresses masked - IPs kept for correlation.Logs