BSD-syslog or legacy-syslog messages

This section describes the format of a syslog message, according to the legacy-syslog or BSD-syslog protocol. A syslog message consists of the following parts:

• [PRI](/docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-concepts/concepts-message-structure/concepts-message-bsdsyslog/concepts-message-bsdsyslog-pri/)

• [HEADER](/docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-concepts/concepts-message-structure/concepts-message-bsdsyslog/concepts-message-bsdsyslog-header/)

• [MSG](/docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-concepts/concepts-message-structure/concepts-message-bsdsyslog/concepts-message-bsdsyslog-msg/)

The total message cannot be longer than 1024 bytes.

The following is a sample syslog message:

   <133>Feb 25 14:09:07 webserver syslogd: restart

The message corresponds to the following format:

   <priority>timestamp hostname application: message

The different parts of the message are explained in the following sections.