Greetings - I have been trying to create a very basic filter that looks up a string in the incoming log. However, it would not match any filter and would go to the default filter. I have tried both match() and message(), neither worked for me. Please let me know if you think I am missing something. Following are the chunks from the syslog-ng.conf source s_net { # All syslog traffic on port 514 - this is direct from network devices. udp(port (514)); network(transport("tcp") max-connections(20000) log_iw_size(100000000) ); # tags("fortigate", "cisco", "default") ); }; filter f_discreg { message("default send string") }; log { source(s_net); filter(f_dlptracker); destination(d_dlptracker); flags(final); }; Here is the log from the test I ran. [2020-12-02T22:00:36+0000] Incoming log entry; source='s_net#0', line='default send string' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match', filter_type='OR' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter rule evaluation result; filter_result='not-match', filter_rule='f_tanium' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter rule evaluation begins; filter_rule='f_palo_alto' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match', filter_type='OR' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match', filter_type='OR' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter rule evaluation result; filter_result='not-match', filter_rule='f_palo_alto' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter rule evaluation begins; filter_rule='f_dlptracker' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter node evaluation result; filter_result='not-match' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Filter rule evaluation result; filter_result='not-match', filter_rule='f_dlptracker' [2020-12-02T22:00:46+0000] Outgoing message; destination='d_fallback#0', message='2020-12-02T22:00:46+00:00 172.17.236.3 default send string\x0a' Regards, Saqib M Cybersecurity Co-op Global Cybersecurity Technologies Email: saqib.m@cummins.com<mailto:saqib.m@cummins.com> Cummins Inc.