I’m currently testing a setup where a syslog-ng client is shipping its logs to an Haproxy syslog forwarding endpoint which then forwards to a remote syslog-ng server. The logs arrive at the destination but unfortunately it appears the structured data is stripped (SDATA) therefore some important met…

Sdata support was introduced in RFC5424 however you are forcing the old BSD style syslogs as defined in RFC3164. Upgrade it to rfc5424.

Structured data lost when forwarding logs voa syslog forwarding feature

hartfordfive April 24, 2025, 7:03pm 5

Good catch, this resolved my issue! Thanks for your help.

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