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jl6
Asked: 2014-04-28 12:25:06 +0800 CST

How do I configure rsyslog on Ubuntu 14.04 to use ISO8601 timestamps?

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In a file in /etc/rsyslog.d/ I have the following:

local3.*        /var/log/mylog.log

When I log to this facility, records have timestamps which look like this:

Apr 27 21:12:20 hostname msg

How do I set things up so that they look like this instead?

2014-04-27T21:12:20 hostname msg
ubuntu

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This can be achieved by commenting out the following line in /etc/rsyslog.conf as the comment suggests:

    #
# Use traditional timestamp format.
# To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
#
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

    Log format now looks like this:

    2014-04-29T20:41:36.366613+01:00 hostname msg
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