# Recommendations for syslog ingestion?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 13, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557 "2020-03-13T18:04:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![\_finack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e68b1a/32.png) [@\_finack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_finack)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557/1 "2020-03-13T18:04:41Z")

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We have many applications where we would like to ingest their log data into Elastic Stack; however, the log shipping mechanism is syslog (BSD, CEF, or RFC 5424). Our use case is SIEM & threat hunting.

Here are options I can think of:

- Send the logs to a server running rsyslog or syslog-ng, then consume this data with Filebeat.
- Send the logs to a Logstash server.

Are there other options? Of these options, which is the most recommended?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557/2 "2020-03-16T15:43:56Z")

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Hey,

just FYI, filebeat has a syslog input as well, so no need for a rsyslog/syslog-ng server. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.6/filebeat-input-syslog.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.6/filebeat-input-syslog.html)

If you would like to start simple with as few components as possible, that might be the way to go.

--Alex

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**Author:** ![\_finack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e68b1a/32.png) [@\_finack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_finack)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557/3 "2020-03-24T17:31:55Z")

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My understanding is that filebeat only supports syslog RFC 3164 and not RFC 5424.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557/4 "2020-03-30T13:46:22Z")

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Sorry, I misread. You are right, you may want to ask the developers on that issue here [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/6872](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/6872)

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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:** [April 27, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendations-for-syslog-ingestion/223557/5 "2020-04-27T13:46:26Z")

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