Syslog is definitely not on its way out. It's been in use for 30 years because it works. Perhaps this is rather Redhat trying its hand at the embrace & extend g

Syslog is definitely not on its way out. It's been in use for 30 years because it works. Perhaps this is rather Redhat trying its hand at the embrace & extend game by introducing proprietary tools? Forcing staff to train on such technologies (with pretty yet dysfunctional guis) will make migrating to other systems harder. As for the free-form text "problem" this solution claims to address: Different daemons produce logs in different format simply because one's data won't fit in another's schema. And you can actually live with postfix and qmail producing logs in different formats about the same event because you have strictly one of them installed in your server. And in my experience, switching from one to another is a huge undertaking where rewriting your regexp hacks is a drop in a bucket.