syslog

noun

A logging output standard. Splunk consumes syslog output via network inputs, and can also send data to other systems in syslog format.

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configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time