Syslog windows agent

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You will use these to configure the syslog-ng agent for Windows and to restart it. No matter what you use, the following simple configuration works with any recent syslog-ng release.

You can either append it to syslog-ng. This configuration defines two sets of sources and destinations. The first one uses the legacy syslog protocol on port The second one uses the new syslog protocol on port In this case the destination file uses JSON formatting to show the name-value-pairs created by the syslog-ng agent for Windows and forwarded using the new syslog protocol.

You will see some filtering related settings below it. For now, we leave those alone. It opens a new window. Now stop and start syslog-ng agent for Windows using the menu items in the Windows Start menu for the configuration to take effect. With both the syslog-ng server and the agent for Windows configured you are now ready to check your log messages.

While the agent is configured to use the new syslog protocol by default, most people still stick to the legacy protocol. Compare the two log files to see the difference:. Unless your only reason to collect logs from Windows hosts is to tick a check box on a compliance check list, using the legacy syslog protocol does not make much sense.

Even if the logs include a good part of the event data finding that in free-form text messages is difficult and creating reports from these logs is close to impossible. Using the new syslog protocol provides you with richer data, and what is even more important: structured data.

In the server side configuration we simply dump incoming name-value pairs in JSON format into a file. To collect syslog data from this version of these distributions, the rsyslog daemon should be installed and configured to replace sysklog. For any other facility, configure a Custom Logs data source in Azure Monitor. The Log Analytics agent for Linux will only collect events with the facilities and severities that are specified in its configuration.

You can configure Syslog through the Azure portal or by managing configuration files on your Linux agents. Configure Syslog from the Agent configuration menu for the Log Analytics workspace.

This configuration is delivered to the configuration file on each Linux agent. You can add a new facility by clicking Add facility.

For each facility, only messages with the selected severities will be collected. Check the severities for the particular facility that you want to collect. You cannot provide any additional criteria to filter messages. By default, all configuration changes are automatically pushed to all agents. If you want to configure Syslog manually on each Linux agent, then uncheck the box Apply below configuration to my machines. When the Log Analytics agent is installed on a Linux client , it installs a default syslog configuration file that defines the facility and severity of the messages that are collected.

You can modify this file to change the configuration. The configuration file is different depending on the Syslog daemon that the client has installed. If you edit the syslog configuration, you must restart the syslog daemon for the changes to take effect. Its default contents are shown below. This collects syslog messages sent from the local agent for all facilities with a level of warning or higher.

You can remove a facility by removing its section of the configuration file.