msgid

Carries the MSGID header field defined in RFC 5424 Section 6.2.7.

This property belongs to the Message Properties group.

Name:

msgid

Category:

Message Properties

Type:

string

Description

Carries the MSGID header field defined in RFC 5424 Section 6.2.7. The value identifies the semantic type of the event (for example an SMTP transaction label) and RFC 5424 allows the NILVALUE (-) when the sender cannot provide one. When rsyslog processes messages that lacked a syslog header at ingestion, the property contains the configured or inferred MSGID value rather than an on-the-wire header.

Usage

template(name="example" type="list") {
    property(name="msgid")
}

See also

See rsyslog Properties for the category overview.


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