Customize message format using macros and templates

The following sections describe how to customize the names of logfiles, and also how to use templates, macros, and template functions.

• Formatting messages, filenames, directories, and tablenames explains how macros work.

• Modifying messages using rewrite rules describes how to use macros and templates to format log messages or change the names of logfiles and database tables.

• Macros of syslog-ng OSE lists the different types of macros available in syslog-ng OSE.

• Using template functions explains what template functions are and how to use them.

• Template functions of syslog-ng OSE lists the template functions available in syslog-ng OSE.