History
Syslog was developed in the 1980s by Eric Allman as part of the Sendmail project, and was initially used solely for Sendmail. It proved so valuable that other applications began using it as well. Syslog has since become the standard logging solution on Unix and Unix-like systems; there have also been a variety of syslog implementations on other operating systems and is commonly found in network devices such as routers.
Syslog functioned as a de facto standard, without any authoritative published specification, and many implementations existed, some of which were incompatible. The Internet Engineering Task Force documented the status quo in RFC 3164. It was made obsolete by subsequent additions in RFC 5424.
At different points in time, various companies have attempted patent claims on syslog. This had little effect on the use and standardization of the protocol.
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