Support of syslog messages of hexadecimal format in syslog input plugin

[deepaksb2]

There are few devices which are sending syslog message containing hexadecimal format data with protocols like LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) , CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) , TLV (Type-Length-Value) formats which are not supported by syslog plugin out of the box, it would be great if plugin parse this message and convert to ASCII plain text format. Syslog message contains data like below
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xCC\xCC,\xF8\x9B#dv-edge-xxx

[daipom]

Can this be solved by setting a parser?

https://docs.fluentd.org/input/syslog#less-than-parse-greater-than-directive

If a corresponding parser plugin is published, it may work.
Or you can create the parser plugin!

https://docs.fluentd.org/plugin-development/api-plugin-parser