Why doesn't the Unix / Linux add on have default support for picking up logs from the systemd logs into journald?

[alastor]

systemd journald logs not being read by TA_NIX

Why doesn't the Unix / Linux add on have default support for picking up logs from the systemd logs into journald?

I realize journald is a binary format, I don't think it makes sense to ignore that data or ask each splunk user to find a manual way of pulling this data it. It should be part of this app.

Will Splunk please fix this?

Thanks!

[tgurantz_splunk]

I'm going through these older journald posts for other reasons, but it looks like no one has updated responses here that there's better ways now? Splunk 8.1 (which was released around the time you asked this question) introduced native journald input support (separate from any TA for *NIX): 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/CollecteventsfromJournalD