diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e78f8147..7273d39a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 - HTTP Requests and Responses, see #1748 (@keith-hall)
 - LLVM, see #1777 (@ioncodes)
 - Highlight for `vimrc` and `gvimrc` files, see #1763 (@SuperSandro2000)
+- Syslog highlighting improvements, see #1793 (@scop)
 
 
 ## New themes
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/syslog.sublime-syntax b/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/syslog.sublime-syntax
index ce782e50..8c4523a8 100644
--- a/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/syslog.sublime-syntax
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/syslog.sublime-syntax
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ contexts:
     - match: ^
       push: text
   loghost:
-    - match: '[\w-]+'
+    - match: '[\w:.-]+'
       scope: entity.other.attribute-name.loghost.syslog
       set: process
   process:
-    - match: ([\w-]+)(?:(\[)(\d+)(\]))?(:)
+    - match: ([\w.-]+)(?:(\[)(\d+)(\]))?(:)
       captures:
         1: support.function.process.syslog
         2: punctuation.separator.pid.begin.syslog
diff --git a/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Syslog/example.syslog b/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Syslog/example.syslog
index 35002a83..3c6c29ed 100644
--- a/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Syslog/example.syslog
+++ b/tests/syntax-tests/highlighted/Syslog/example.syslog
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@
 Apr  4 09:30:01 hostname-here CRON[89278]: (root) CMD ([ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi)
 Apr  4 16:32:07 hostname-here NetworkManager[740]: <info>  [1617629527.1101] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
 Apr  4 22:00:45 hostname-here dbus-daemon[1094]: [session uid=1000 pid=1094] Successfully activated service 'io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid'
+Aug 11 13:29:06 hostname-here insomnia_insomnia.desktop[142666]: 13:29:06.316 › [updater] Updater not running platform=linux dev=false
+Aug 11 13:36:34 192.168.220.5 nginx: 2021/08/11 13:36:34 [debug] 2031#2031: epoll add event: fd:6 op:1 ev:00002001
+Aug 11 21:31:08 ::1 nginx: 2021/08/11 21:31:08 [debug] 760831#760831: epoll add event: fd:6 op:1 ev:10000001
diff --git a/tests/syntax-tests/source/Syslog/example.syslog b/tests/syntax-tests/source/Syslog/example.syslog
index 337f1434..0cde74cd 100644
--- a/tests/syntax-tests/source/Syslog/example.syslog
+++ b/tests/syntax-tests/source/Syslog/example.syslog
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ Apr  4 00:06:29 hostname-here ntpd[952]: receive: Unexpected origin timestamp 0x
 Apr  4 09:30:01 hostname-here CRON[89278]: (root) CMD ([ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi)
 Apr  4 16:32:07 hostname-here NetworkManager[740]: <info>  [1617629527.1101] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
 Apr  4 22:00:45 hostname-here dbus-daemon[1094]: [session uid=1000 pid=1094] Successfully activated service 'io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid'
+Aug 11 13:29:06 hostname-here insomnia_insomnia.desktop[142666]: 13:29:06.316 › [updater] Updater not running platform=linux dev=false
+Aug 11 13:36:34 192.168.220.5 nginx: 2021/08/11 13:36:34 [debug] 2031#2031: epoll add event: fd:6 op:1 ev:00002001
+Aug 11 21:31:08 ::1 nginx: 2021/08/11 21:31:08 [debug] 760831#760831: epoll add event: fd:6 op:1 ev:10000001