VMWare host syslog

[ahaywood]

UPDATE:

I am now seeing log data on my graylog server, what i had to do is something along the lines of the following to forward my local graylog logs to a port that i set and input up on within the graylog application:

How to configure Ubuntu to log to a remote syslog server

How to save all incoming syslog to Graylog-server

Please refer to the aforementioned syslog guide for how to configure forwarding syslog messages to Graylog: The used message format is relevant (i. e. you’re missing the template in your forwarding directive).