Syslog Component

The syslog component can be used to send ESPHome logs to a syslog server. It requires both a UDP component and a Time component to be configured.

# Example configuration entry

udp:
  addresses: 10.0.0.1

time:
  platform: sntp

syslog:

Configuration Options

• id (Optional, ID): Manually specify the ID used for code generation.
• udp_id (Required, ID): The ID of the UDP client to use for sending logs. May be omitted if only one UDP client is configured.
• time_id (Required, ID): The ID of the time client to use for time-stamping logs. May be omitted if only one time client is configured.
• port (Optional, int): The port to send logs to. Defaults to 514.
• facility (Optional, int): The syslog facility to use. Defaults to 16 (corresponding to local0 ).
• level (Optional, string): The highest log level to send to the syslog server. Defaults to DEBUG.
• strip (Optional, boolean): If set, remove color-codes from log messages. Defaults to true.