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log.syslog.severity.name incorrect #1948
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@abraxxa, thanks for this issue. I agree the
Past conversation in #129 discussed this type of standardization in-depth in a new |
Thanks for the pointer to #129! My intent was only to fix the docs and standardize the values in the |
Description of the issue:
The description of the field
log.syslog.severity.name
says:The Syslog numeric severity of the log event, if available.
The correct wording would be something like:
The Syslog textual severity of the log event, if available.
Their exact strings should also be included to standardize them for easier filtering. Wikipedia lists
keywords
but I couldn't find them in RFC5424. Therefore I'm proposing to use the severity names as listed in RFC5424. If possible the field mapping should ignore the case, allowing to store them unmodified but still finding all possible case variants.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: