Nginx only sends hostname to syslog.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:

> To get the post data from Kibana I use Nginx as a proxy and have the 
> following log format,
> 
>    log_format audit '$time_iso8601 "$remote_user" "$request_uri" 
> "$request_body"';
> 
> 
> and to send the log to syslog I use the following.
> 
>    access_log syslog:server=192.168.1.1,tag=audit audit;
> 
> 
> But Nginx only sends hostname to syslog server, is it possible to 
> configure Nginx to send fully qualified domain name?

Much like for the $hostname variable, for syslog logging nginx 
uses whatever is returned by the gethostname() call.  It's up to 
you to configure fully qualified domain name as a hostname of a 
particular server.

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Maxim Dounin
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