New syslog sink #6863

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   domain: logsAnything related to Vector's log eventsAnything related to Vector's log events

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5. prognant commented on Apr 9, 2021

   

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   Will probably have to support both old (rfc3164) and new (rfc5424).

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10. wfender commented on Sep 17, 2021

    

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    Hello,
    Do you have any news about this feature ?
    It would be a very great and useful feature expected by many people.

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11. jszwedko commented on Sep 17, 2021

    

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    Hi @wfender . We are working on the groundwork for this in #8617, but don't have a definite ETA yet.

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13. The1hauntedX commented on Jun 6, 2025

    

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    I can't help but wonder if this would make more sense as an encoding option that theoretically any sink could support.
    I use Vector heavily in my company to forward security events to Google Chronicle using the gcp_chronicle_unstructured sink, but Chronicle only accepts syslog format for a good number of log types.
14. jszwedko commented on Jun 6, 2025

    

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    Big 👍 to making this a encoding codec. There is a PR started for this over here: #21307

    Once that exists, the syslog sink could be a simple wrapper around the socket sink with the syslog codec preconfigured.

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15. abjklk commented on Jan 6, 2026

    

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    Big thanks to @syedriko @polarathene @vparfonov for merging #23777 , we finally have a syslog encoder !

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19. tot19 commented on Mar 27, 2026

    

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    I've opened a PR for this: #25055

    It wraps the existing socket transport utilities with the syslog codec from #23777 as a dedicated syslog sink — supports TCP, UDP, and Unix sockets with RFC 5424 and RFC 3164. Thanks to @vparfonov, @polarathene, and @syedriko for the encoder work that made this straightforward to build.

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