I’m working with the latest nightly builds, and trying to get the syslog plugin working without much success. Running it on my Mac, I get no entries from syslog. I also tried enabling the tail plugin and pointing it to /usr/local/var/log/**.log as suggested in the Telegraf config file, but all that …

Enabling the Syslog Log

davidgs June 21, 2018, 12:33pm 6

Thanks @philb! I did try it on my Linux box and it does indeed work! This is all great!

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