title: Stackdriver Logging - Log severity levels not reported/received when sent via syslog
body: <p>It appears that log severity is not being passed to Google Cloud Logging platform via fluentd agent, to reproduce you can try:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Bash:</strong></p>
  
  <p><code>logger -p user.crit "My log"</code></p>
  
  <p><strong>or PHP:</strong></p>
  
  <p><code>php -r "syslog(LOG_CRIT,'My log');"</code></p>
  
  <p><strong>or Python:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>import syslog
  
  syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, 'My log')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>things are getting passed to Google Logs Viewer as below:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pXXFW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pXXFW.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>but severity is not being sent across, any ideas why would that be?</p>