VMware Aria Operations for Logs as a Syslog Server

VMware Aria Operations for Logs includes a built-in syslog server that is constantly active when the VMware Aria Operations for Logs service is running.

The syslog server listens on ports 514/TCP, 1514/TCP, and 514/UDP, and is ready to ingest log messages that are sent from other hosts. Messages that are ingested by the syslog server become searchable in the VMware Aria Operations for Logs web user interface near real time. The maximum syslog message length that VMware Aria Operations for Logs accepts is 10 KB.

Syslog formats RFC-6587, RFC-5424, and RFC-3164 are supported.