# Customize message format using macros and templates The following sections describe how to customize the names of logfiles, and also how to use templates, macros, and template functions. * [Formatting messages, filenames, directories, and tablenames](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/concepts-macro/index.md) explains how macros work. * [Modify messages using rewrite rules](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/modifying-messages/index.md) describes how to use macros and templates to format log messages or change the names of logfiles and database tables. * [Macros of AxoSyslog](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/reference-macros/index.md) lists the different types of macros available in AxoSyslog. * [Using template functions](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/template-functions/index.md) explains what template functions are and how to use them. * [Template functions of AxoSyslog](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/reference-template-functions/index.md) lists the template functions available in AxoSyslog. * * * [Formatting messages, filenames, directories, and tablenames](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/concepts-macro/index.md) [Templates and macros](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/configuring-macros/index.md) [Date-related macros](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/date-macros/index.md) [Hard versus soft macros](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/macros-hard-vs-soft/index.md) [Macros of AxoSyslog](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/reference-macros/index.md) [Using template functions](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/template-functions/index.md) [Template functions of AxoSyslog](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/reference-template-functions/index.md) [Modifying the on-the-wire message format](../../docs/axosyslog-core/chapter-manipulating-messages/customizing-message-format/on-the-wire-format/index.md) Last modified June 27, 2023: [Update paths to follow-up moving the files (6585a5b1)]()