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# On March 16, 2025 at 18:14

Interestingly, the default syslog format is a custom Mikrotik format. For standard format you need to select BSD syslog which is actually RFC3164.

Grafana Loki and Promtail use this library for parsing syslog payloads <https://github.com/leodido/go-syslog>