Use Case

Routers like OpenWrt only emit syslog messages in RFC3164 format, but support the non-standard TCP transport. The existing non-transparent and octet counting methods do work, but do not support the RFC3164 line format. This can be easily resolved with a converter in between telegraf and the source, but it would be ideal if the middleman was not needed.

Expected behavior

The syslog messages get parsed and processed like points from other inputs.

Actual behavior

Currently, the syslog plugin reports:

2025-06-11T10:52:13Z E! [inputs.syslog] Error in plugin: expecting a version value in the range 1-999 [col 4]

Additional info

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