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Syslog Message

intermediate

Parses traditional syslog (RFC 3164) format messages.

logsyslogserverparsing

Pattern

/([A-Z][a-z]{2})\s+(\d{1,2})\s+(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+?)(?:\[(\d+)])?: (.*)/g

Try It

0 of 4 strings matched

Explanation

Captures syslog fields: month abbreviation, day, time, hostname, process name, optional PID in brackets, and message.

Test Strings

Matching

  • Mar 17 09:30:00 myhost sshd[12345]: Accepted password for user
  • Jan 1 00:00:00 server kernel: Boot complete

Non-matching

  • 2024-01-15 some log
  • not a syslog line

Language Compatibility

LanguageSupport
JSFull support
PYTHONFull support
JAVAFull support
PHPFull support
GOFull support

Code Snippets

const regex = /([A-Z][a-z]{2})\s+(\d{1,2})\s+(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+?)(?:\[(\d+)])?: (.*)/g;
const text = "your text here";
const matches = text.match(regex);
console.log(matches);

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