While Splunk can listen for syslog data directly, for large implementation is it recommended to stand up dedicated collection infrastructure with a Universal forwarder for data forwarding to the indexer tier.
This app provides monitoring dashboards and sample configuration for two popular collection mechanisms based on:
- rsyslog
- syslog-ng
This project is hosted on GitHub, see https://github.com/hire-vladimir/SA-syslog_collection
Collaborators wanted!!!