diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/syslog/SpringBootSyslogApplication.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/syslog/SpringBootSyslogApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56c3b62c5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/syslog/SpringBootSyslogApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package com.baeldung.syslog;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class SpringBootSyslogApplication {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(SpringBootSyslogApplication.class);
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(SpringBootSyslogApplication.class, args);
+
+        logger.debug("Debug log message");
+        logger.info("Info log message");
+        logger.error("Error log message");
+        logger.warn("Warn log message");
+        logger.fatal("Fatal log message");
+        logger.trace("Trace log message");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml
index b08cd2d22d..77a2074b30 100644
--- a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-logging-log4j2/src/main/resources/log4j2-spring.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
                 <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
             </Policies>
         </RollingFile>
+
+        <Syslog name="Syslog" format="RFC5424" host="localhost" port="514"
+            protocol="UDP" appName="baeldung" facility="LOCAL0" />
+
     </Appenders>
 
     <Loggers>
@@ -29,6 +33,7 @@
         <Root level="info">
             <AppenderRef ref="Console" />
             <AppenderRef ref="RollingFile" />
+            <AppenderRef ref="Syslog" />
         </Root>
 
         <!-- LOG "com.baeldung*" at TRACE level -->