I would add, that you can extend syslog to use queuing [0], RELP [1] and TLS [2] to protect your data in transit.

[0] - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Event_Logging_Protoco...

[2] - https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/tutorials/tls.html

Syslog (at least on Solaris) seems to have a max length of 1024 characters. Highly annoying and seemingly arbitrary limitation.

what @weavie said. :)