diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index ea647b43c9d..4806c0e9331 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
./services/logging/logstash.nix
./services/logging/rsyslogd.nix
./services/logging/syslogd.nix
+ ./services/logging/syslog-ng.nix
./services/mail/dovecot.nix
./services/mail/freepops.nix
./services/mail/mail.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix b/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8b892a33bb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+
+ cfg = config.services.syslog-ng;
+
+ syslogngConfig = pkgs.writeText "syslog-ng.conf" ''
+ @version: 3.5
+ @include "scl.conf"
+ ${cfg.extraConfig}
+ '';
+
+ ctrlSocket = "/run/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl";
+ pidFile = "/run/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.pid";
+ persistFile = "/var/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.persist";
+
+ syslogngOptions = [
+ "--foreground"
+ "--module-path=${concatStringsSep ":" (["${pkgs.syslogng}/lib/syslog-ng"] ++ cfg.extraModulePaths)}"
+ "--cfgfile=${syslogngConfig}"
+ "--control=${ctrlSocket}"
+ "--persist-file=${persistFile}"
+ "--pidfile=${pidFile}"
+ ];
+
+in {
+
+ options = {
+
+ services.syslog-ng = {
+ enable = mkOption {
+ type = types.bool;
+ default = false;
+ description = ''
+ Whether to enable the syslog-ng daemon.
+ '';
+ };
+ serviceName = mkOption {
+ type = types.str;
+ default = "syslog-ng";
+ description = ''
+ The name of the systemd service that runs syslog-ng. Set this to
+ syslog if you want journald to automatically
+ forward all logs to syslog-ng.
+ '';
+ };
+ extraModulePaths = mkOption {
+ type = types.listOf types.str;
+ default = [];
+ example = [ "${pkgs.syslogng_incubator}/lib/syslog-ng" ];
+ description = ''
+ A list of paths that should be included in syslog-ng's
+ --module-path option. They should usually
+ end in /lib/syslog-ng
+ '';
+ };
+ extraConfig = mkOption {
+ type = types.lines;
+ default = "";
+ description = ''
+ Configuration added to the end of syslog-ng.conf.
+ '';
+ };
+ };
+ };
+
+ config = mkIf cfg.enable {
+ systemd.services."${cfg.serviceName}" = {
+ wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+ preStart = "mkdir -p /{var,run}/syslog-ng";
+ serviceConfig = {
+ Type = "notify";
+ Sockets = "syslog.socket";
+ StandardOutput = "null";
+ Restart = "on-failure";
+ ExecStart = "${pkgs.syslogng}/sbin/syslog-ng ${concatStringsSep " " syslogngOptions}";
+ };
+ };
+ };
+
+}