# Poll: RFC 5424 vs. RFC 3164

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poll-rfc-5424-vs-rfc-3164/29732>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poll-rfc-5424-vs-rfc-3164/29732 "2015-09-21T21:02:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poll-rfc-5424-vs-rfc-3164/29732/1 "2015-09-21T21:02:51Z")

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Hi,

Some of us here at Sematext debated the adoption of RFC 5424. So instead of guessing, we thought we'd conduct a 1-question poll 🙂

> **[Poll: How do you ship your Logs?](https://sematext.com/blog/poll-how-do-you-ship-your-logs/)**
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> Recently, a few people from Sematext’s Logsene team debated about how useful the “structured” part of syslog logs (those using the RFC5424 format) is to people.  Or has shipping logs in other…

Oh, and try to guess before peeking at the results! 🙂

## Thanks! Otis

Monitoring \* Alerting \* Anomaly Detection \* Centralized Log Management  
Elasticsearch & Consulting Support \* [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/)

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**Author:** ![simmel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simmel/32/48040_2.png) [@simmel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simmel)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poll-rfc-5424-vs-rfc-3164/29732/2 "2015-09-23T06:53:56Z")

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To clarify my vote, we use a combination of RFC3164 and JSON. We use  
JSON as the CONTENT.

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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poll-rfc-5424-vs-rfc-3164/29732/3 "2015-09-24T03:04:18Z")

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Thanks for the info, Simon!

## Otis

Monitoring \* Alerting \* Anomaly Detection \* Centralized Log Management  
Elasticsearch Consulting & Support \* [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poll-rfc-5424-vs-rfc-3164/29732/4 "2017-07-06T05:28:13Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:28am UTC