fluent-plugin-remote-syslog-cg
===========================

fluentd plugin for streaming logs out to a remote syslog server or syslog SaaS service (like Papertrail)

#Available Plugins:
* out_syslog: registers itself as "syslog-cg", and is the non-buffered implementation, communicating through UDP
* out_syslog_buffered: registers itself as "syslog_buffered-cg", and is the buffered implementation, communicating through TCP

#Plugin Settings:
Both plugins have the same configuration options:

* remote_syslog: fqdn or ip of the remote syslog instance
* port: the port, where the remote syslog instance is listening
* hostname: hostname to be set for syslog messages
* remove_tag_prefix: remove tag prefix for tag placeholder. 
* tag_key: use the field specified in tag_key from record to set the syslog key
* facility: Syslog log facility
* severity: Syslog log severity
* use_record: Use severity and facility from record if available
* payload_key: Use the field specified in payload_key from record to set payload
* max_size: the max size of message to send defaults to 4096

#Configuration example:
```
<match site.*>
  type syslog_buffered-cg
  remote_syslog your.syslog.host
  port 25
  hostname ${hostname}
  facility local0
  severity debug
</match>
```


Contributors:

* CompareGroup
* Andrea Spoldi 
* [deathowl](http://github.com/deathowl)