Just to confirm, still use the Graylog Input “Syslog UDP”, correct?
Also, if I were to change the port from 514 to 1514 as you suggested on my ESXi Host, it still would not work because as I noted in my post, I am unable to telnet to the Graylog Syslog server on either port, 514 or 1514.
Do you know why my Graylog Syslog server is not listening on either of these ports? There are no firewalls in play here.
Hi, you can’t telnet to UDP ports (because it’s a stateless protocol), it’s only possible with TCP.
Your problem is probably firewall on ESXi host, that by default block all outgoing connections. So please update your firewall setttings and add port 1514 (as Outgoing ports) to firewall in ESXi.
Thank you! I had forgotten about UDP being stateless and not “telnet’able”. I did have the firewall on ESXi open. I remove my current input of Syslog UDP and add a new Syslog TCP input. Then specified tcp using port 1514.