rawmsg

Provides the received message exactly as rsyslog stored it.

This property belongs to the Message Properties group.

Name:

rawmsg

Category:

Message Properties

Type:

string

Description

The message “as is”. Should be useful for debugging and also if a message should be forwarded totally unaltered. Please notice EscapecontrolCharactersOnReceive is enabled by default, so it may be different from what was received in the socket.

Usage

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

See also

See rsyslog Properties for the category overview.

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