1. A machine-controlled method, comprising: receiving a syslog message from a syslog source; identifying a particular one of a plurality of syslog parsers for handling the syslog message, wherein the identifying comprises at least one of applying at least one application ID-based policy, applying at least one unique pattern matching rule policy, and applying at least one universal syslog parser policy; and transmitting the syslog message to the particular one of the plurality of syslog parsers.