convert syslog to json with filebeat and logstash

Question

Is it possible that filebeat will recieve logs as syslog and will output them to logstash as json so i won't need to parse each kind of log?

thanks

Answer 1

Filebeat reads log files, it does not receive syslog streams and it does not parse logs.

Logstash however, can receive syslog using the syslog input if you log format is RFC3164 compliant. Otherwise, you can do what I assume you are already doing and sending to a UDP input.