diff --git a/filters/audits/syslog.md b/filters/audits/syslog.md
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+# Generic Syslog normalization and rule review
+
+Use the SDK fieldName key so message extraction is retained.
+
+This draft targets UTMStack `v11`. It contains 1 filter changes
+and 0 rule changes for this technology only. Review covered
+1 filter configurations and 3 matching shipped rule files.
+Unchanged rules are listed in the regression manifest; they are not duplicated in the diff.
+
+## Contract and validation
+
+- Compared exact standard names/types with go-sdk v1.1.31 and the supplied UTMStack dictionaries.
+- Checked documented pipeline ordering, rename/move behavior, open vendor log fields,
+  event-side versus alert-side fields, and surviving fields used by affected rule predicates/history/grouping.
+- Strict SDK configuration decoding and actual CEL compilation pass for this scope.
+- 1 synthetic normalization cases pass, including SDK Event conversion and any
+  trigger predicate assertions recorded in the manifest.
+- The scoped alerts module tests and `git diff --check` pass with the shared contract runner applied.
+
+The shared alert-contract PR supplies the reusable Go runner for the manifest in
+`plugins/alerts/testdata/filter-contracts/syslog.json`. Apply that support before running `go test ./...` in `plugins/alerts`.
+
+The model starts from synthetic extraction results. It does not run complex grok,
+JSON/KV/XML/CSV extraction, time conversion, dynamic plugins, historical OpenSearch
+queries, or the closed EventProcessor. Raw vendor logs and resulting alerts must
+still be checked in staging before rollout. No customer false-positive reduction
+has been measured and no production rollout is included.
+
+The one-field message capture is validated as a copy and the configuration decodes strictly against the SDK.
+
+## References
+
+- [SDK schema](https://github.com/threatwinds/go-sdk/blob/v1.1.31/plugins/plugins.proto)
+- [Filter steps](https://github.com/threatwinds/go-sdk/wiki/Filter-Steps-Reference)
+- [Standard event schema](https://github.com/threatwinds/go-sdk/wiki/Standard-Event-Schema)
+- [Rule implementation](https://github.com/threatwinds/go-sdk/wiki/Implementing-Rules)
+
+`afterEvents`, empty noncapturing grok names, supported numeric strings, and custom
+`log.*` fields are accepted. Existing textual protocol casing and vendor action names
+are preserved unless a concrete consumer mismatch requires correction.
diff --git a/filters/syslog/syslog-generic.yml b/filters/syslog/syslog-generic.yml
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--- a/filters/syslog/syslog-generic.yml
+++ b/filters/syslog/syslog-generic.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ pipeline:
     steps:
       - grok:
           patterns:
-            - field_name: log.message
+            - fieldName: log.message
               pattern: '(.*)'
           source: raw
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diff --git a/plugins/alerts/testdata/filter-contracts/syslog.json b/plugins/alerts/testdata/filter-contracts/syslog.json
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+{
+  "technology": "Generic Syslog",
+  "filters": [
+    "filters/syslog/syslog-generic.yml"
+  ],
+  "rules": [
+    "rules/syslog/cef/file_hash_mismatches.yml",
+    "rules/syslog/cef/syslog_source_impersonation.yml",
+    "rules/syslog/cef/user_agent_anomalies.yml"
+  ],
+  "fixtures": [
+    {
+      "name": "syslog_message_capture",
+      "filter": "syslog/syslog-generic.yml",
+      "input": {
+        "raw": "unstructured test message"
+      },
+      "expected": {
+        "log.message": "unstructured test message",
+        "raw": "unstructured test message"
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}