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Quorten Blog 1

First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

How does remote syslog work? Here, look at these RFCs. It really is pretty simple, just syslog text lines over TCP, UDP, TLS, etc.

20190804/DuckDuckGo udp syslog
20190804/https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5426
20190804/https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424
20190804/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog

And for my own reference, how do you configure Docker containers to send their logs via the remote syslog protocol? Easy. --log-driver syslog when starting a container.

20190804/https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/