# Filebeat syslog input to filebeat system

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-syslog-input-to-filebeat-system/204515>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-syslog-input-to-filebeat-system/204515 "2019-10-21T15:44:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![gborg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gborg/32/58934_2.png) [@gborg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gborg)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-syslog-input-to-filebeat-system/204515/1 "2019-10-21T15:44:01Z")

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Hello.

I have some servers running filebeat and I really like the system module, especially the ssh/auth parts of it.

if I have a filebeat syslog UDP reciever running and send syslog event's to it, I would like them to be parsed in the same manner. I tried sending the filebeat udp syslogs into the 'filebeat-7.4.0-system-auth-pipeline' but the structure of the data isn't the same

Does anyone have a good method of using the UDP syslog input and the system module parsing ?

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**Author:** ![faec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/faec/32/46988_2.png) [@faec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/faec)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-syslog-input-to-filebeat-system/204515/2 "2019-10-23T15:02:03Z")

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Welcome! Can you give an example of the different structures you're seeing (and maybe the beat configuration that generated them)? I would expect tcp and udb to give similar results as long as they're both using the same syslog version (the syslog input supports rfc3164 but not yet rfc5424).

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**Author:** ![gborg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gborg/32/58934_2.png) [@gborg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gborg)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-syslog-input-to-filebeat-system/204515/3 "2019-10-30T08:35:23Z")

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Hello, it is not that the syslog messages themselves look different it's just that the udp syslog messages don't get processed with the "system" pipeline like the local ones

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-syslog-input-to-filebeat-system/204515/4 "2019-11-27T08:35:38Z")

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