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Jan Zahradník
Asked: 2021-03-08 23:52:29 +0800 CST

VMWare ESXi remote syslog format

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I've followed the documentation, host can connect to remote log port using nc, but no logs are received. As a remote syslog I'm using Loki and Promtail which only supports RFC 5424.

Does ESXi ship this format? How the format can be changed?

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  1. This is probably not exactly what you wanted but you can always send to a syslog server like rsyslog and then forward from there.

    The option RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format will ensure it's RFC5424:

    action(type="omfwd" target="promtail-ip-adress" port="514" template="RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format" protocol="tcp")
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