Syslog is a common event logging protocol on Linux systems. Linux system and applications will write messages to syslog, and you can configure syslog events and performance counters to collect. Once you install the OMS agent for Linux, the agent configures the local syslog daemon to forward messages to the agent, which then relays the messages to Log Analytics. Log Analytics supports collection for syslog messages sent by both the rsyslog and syslog-ng daemons. The OMS agent for Linux will only collect events with the facilities and severity specified in its configuration. Follow the steps in the preceding How to do it section to configure syslog in your Log Analytics workspace. To configure syslog on the machine, edit the ...
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