https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/ListenTCP-or-ListenSyslog/m-p/211704#M173646 <P>There are no real additional reasons. The key reason for ListenSyslog is that it understands syslog message framing on top of a raw TCP socket. Otherwise, it is basically not much different than ListenTCP or ListenUDP.</P> Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:55:33 GMT JoeWitt 2018-02-27T21:55:33Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/ListenTCP-or-ListenSyslog/m-p/211703#M173645 <P>Hi All,</P><P>Thanks a lot to this awesome community. I am using ListenTCP to stream all the logs from a port and sending it to hdfs. </P><P>Using listensyslog I know it can parse for syslog messages and forward but reject the messages which are not in syslog format.</P><P>Are there any major resoning why should I use listetcp over listensyslog besides above point?</P><P>Thanks</P><P>Dhieru</P> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:03:14 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/ListenTCP-or-ListenSyslog/m-p/211703#M173645 dhieru 2018-02-08T01:03:14Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/ListenTCP-or-ListenSyslog/m-p/211704#M173646 <P>There are no real additional reasons. The key reason for ListenSyslog is that it understands syslog message framing on top of a raw TCP socket. Otherwise, it is basically not much different than ListenTCP or ListenUDP.</P> Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:55:33 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/ListenTCP-or-ListenSyslog/m-p/211704#M173646 JoeWitt 2018-02-27T21:55:33Z