I got it working, turns out the sending syslog service takes a few minutes to start and I was just being impatient.
That said, how do I add the Raw/Plaintext input? I understand how to add an input generally, but not one that is specifically for plain text. Thanks! Nathan On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 3:09:44 AM UTC-4, Jochen Schalanda wrote: > > Hi Nathan, > > try using a Raw/Plaintext UDP input instead of a Syslog UDP input. > Sometimes those network appliances send syslog messages which aren't quite > compliant to RFC 3164 or 5424. > > You can still extract the information you want to record with extractors > on that input. > > Cheers, > Jochen > > On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:11:25 UTC+2, Nathan Mace wrote: >> >> I've got Graylog up and running on the OVA. I'm having trouble getting >> syslog messages into it. I've got a Synology NAS setup to send syslog >> messages to the OVA's IP address on port 514 via UDP. I can send a test >> message but it never shows up in the web console. >> >> I have the following input configured: >> >> appliance-syslog-udp Syslog UDP >> >> - allow_override_date: >> true >> - bind_address: >> 0.0.0.0 >> - expand_structured_data: >> false >> - force_rdns: >> false >> - override_source: >> *<empty>* >> - port: >> 514 >> - recv_buffer_size: >> 262144 >> - store_full_message: >> false >> >> >> Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graylog Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/graylog2/fe3419ca-65dc-4271-ba50-81f338ee178e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
