Значение приоритета определяется на основе стандартной сетки IETF syslog Facility по Severity. Серверы Syslog могут экстраполировать значения Facility и Severity.
Найдите значение от 0 до 191 в сетке и посмотрите значения столбцов и строк. Например, значение приоритета 13 соответствует "пользовательскому уровню" Facility и "Notice" Severity.
| Severity | Emergency | Alert | Critical | Error | Warning | Notice | Info | Debug | |
| Facility | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| kernel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| user-level | 1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 2 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | |
| system | 3 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
| secur/auth | 4 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 |
| syslog | 5 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 |
| lpd/printer | 6 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 |
| news/nntp | 7 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 |
| uucp | 8 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 |
| time | 9 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 |
| secur/auth | 10 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 |
| ftp | 11 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 |
| ntp | 12 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 |
| logaudit | 13 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 |
| logalert | 14 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 |
| clock | 15 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 |
| local0 | 16 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 |
| local1 | 17 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 |
| local2 | 18 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 |
| local3 | 19 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 |
| local4 | 20 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 |
| local5 | 21 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 |
| local6 | 22 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 |
| local7 | 23 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 |