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Setup guides & tips

Practical, step-by-step walk-throughs for pointing common network gear and NAS devices at SyslogWatch on macOS.

How to receive UniFi syslog on your Mac

Complete setup for UDM, UCG, UCK, and UDR devices. Filters, alerts, and the log patterns you actually want to know.

pfSense syslog to Mac: complete setup

Works for both pfSense CE / Plus and OPNsense. Filter log, DHCP, VPN, IDS — everything covered.

Synology DSM syslog forwarding: step by step

DSM 7 Log Center to macOS. Connection log, file access audit, backup outcomes, and brute-force alerting.

New guides land here as they are written. Want a guide for MikroTik, TrueNAS, Proxmox, or something else? Email us what you use and we will write it next.