# Stuck with rsyslog pri-text

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-with-rsyslog-pri-text/25758>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-with-rsyslog-pri-text/25758 "2015-07-17T00:35:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nate\_Marks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@Nate\_Marks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nate_Marks)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-with-rsyslog-pri-text/25758/1 "2015-07-17T00:35:31Z")

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When I send syslogs to logstash from my ASA, I get the severity correctly. I prefer to send through rsyslog because It'll let me process archives, but I seem to lose the severity information on my messages when I process input files instead of syslog,

It looks like rsyslog can append pri-text to messages, but I haven't found a way for logstash to process that pri-text "local4.debug:"

Thanks in advance!

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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, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-with-rsyslog-pri-text/25758/2 "2017-07-06T05:34:26Z")

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