If you are a system administrator, or just a regular #linux user, there is a very high chance that you worked with #syslog, at least one time.

On your Linux system, pretty much everything related to system logging is linked to the Syslog protocol.

Designed in the early 80’s by Eric Allman (from Berkeley University), the syslog protocol is a specification that defines a standard for message logging on any system.

Syslog is not tied to Linux operating systems, it can also be used on Windows instances, or ony operating system that implements the syslog protocol.

If you want to know more about syslog and about Linux logging in general, this is probably the tutorial that you should read.