You can compile nginx with syslog support with this module https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_syslog_patch https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_syslog_patch and a

You can compile nginx with syslog support with this module https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_syslog_patch https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_syslog_patch and avoid writing to disk. syslog is still blocking though.