Overview — rsyslog 8.37.0 documentation

# Overview

Write a bit about the logging challenge.

## What is Rsyslog?

Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. While it started as a regular syslogd, rsyslog has evolved into a kind of swiss army knife of logging, being able to

- accept inputs from a wide variety of sources,
- transform them,
- and output the results to diverse destinations.

Rsyslog has a strong enterprise focus but also scales down to small systems.

## Message flow in rsyslog

From where to where and when… describes the flow.

### Input

### Message Transformation

### Output

#### Output format: Templates

See also

Help with configuring/using `Rsyslog`:

- Mailing list - best route for general questions
- GitHub: rsyslog source project - detailed questions, reporting issues that are believed to be bugs with `Rsyslog`
- Stack Exchange (View, Ask) - experimental support from rsyslog community

See also

Contributing to `Rsyslog`:

- Source project: rsyslog project README.
- Documentation: rsyslog-doc project README