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Moved syslog configuration details into the separate documents.
author Ruslan Ermilov <ru@nginx.com>
date Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:21:16 +0400
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1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
2
3 <!--
4 Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
5 -->
6
7 <!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "../../../dtd/article.dtd">
8
9 <article name="Logging to syslog"
10 link="/en/docs/syslog.html"
11 lang="en"
12 rev="1">
13
14 <section>
15
16 <para>
17 The
18 <link doc="ngx_core_module.xml" id="error_log"/>
19 and
20 <link doc="http/ngx_http_log_module.xml" id="access_log"/>
21 directives support logging to syslog.
22 The following parameters configure logging to syslog:
23 <list type="tag">
24
25 <tag-name><literal>server=</literal><value>address</value></tag-name>
26 <tag-desc>
27 Defines the address of a syslog server.
28 The address can be specified as a domain name, IP address, or
29 a UNIX-domain socket path (specified after the “<literal>unix:</literal>”
30 prefix).
31 With a domain name or IP address, the port can be specified.
32 If port is not specified, the port 514 is used.
33 If a domain name resolves to several IP addresses, the first resolved
34 address is used.
35 </tag-desc>
36
37 <tag-name><literal>facility=</literal><value>string</value></tag-name>
38 <tag-desc>
39 Sets facility of syslog messages, as defined in
40 <link url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1.1">RFC 3164</link>.
41 Facility can be one of “<literal>kern</literal>”, “<literal>user</literal>”,
42 “<literal>mail</literal>”, “<literal>daemon</literal>”,
43 “<literal>auth</literal>”, “<literal>intern</literal>”,
44 “<literal>lpr</literal>”, “<literal>news</literal>”, “<literal>uucp</literal>”,
45 “<literal>clock</literal>”, “<literal>authpriv</literal>”,
46 “<literal>ftp</literal>”, “<literal>ntp</literal>”, “<literal>audit</literal>”,
47 “<literal>alert</literal>”, “<literal>cron</literal>”,
48 “<literal>local0</literal>”..“<literal>local7</literal>”.
49 Default is “<literal>local7</literal>”.
50 </tag-desc>
51
52 <tag-name><literal>severity=</literal><value>string</value></tag-name>
53 <tag-desc>
54 Sets severity of syslog messages for
55 <link doc="http/ngx_http_log_module.xml" id="access_log"/>,
56 as defined in
57 <link url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1.1">RFC 3164</link>.
58 Possible values are the same as for the second parameter (level) of the
59 <link doc="ngx_core_module.xml" id="error_log"/> directive.
60 Default is “<literal>info</literal>”.
61 </tag-desc>
62
63 <tag-name><literal>tag=</literal><value>string</value></tag-name>
64 <tag-desc>
65 Sets the tag of syslog messages.
66 Default is “<literal>nginx</literal>”.
67 </tag-desc>
68
69 <!--
70 <tag-name><literal>bare=</literal><literal>on</literal> |
71 <literal>off</literal></tag-name>
72 <tag-desc>
73 If enabled, messages are sent without syslog headers.
74 Default is <literal>off</literal>.
75 </tag-desc>
76 -->
77
78 </list>
79 Example syslog configuration:
80 <example>
81 error_log syslog:server=192.168.1.1 debug;
82
83 access_log syslog:server=unix:/var/log/nginx.sock;
84 access_log syslog:server=[2001:db8::1]:12345,facility=local7,tag=nginx,severity=info combined;
85 </example>
86 </para>
87
88 <para>
89 <note>
90 Logging to syslog is available since version 1.7.1.
91 As part of our
92 <commercial_version>commercial subscription</commercial_version>
93 logging to syslog is available since version 1.5.3.
94 </note>
95 </para>
96
97 </section>
98
99 </article>