Systemd includes journald, a fancy replacement for the venerable syslog daemon (and its descendents, syslog-ng and rsyslog).
One interesting, but frustrating, decision by journald's maintainers is that it does not speak the syslog network protocol, so it's unable to receive remote syslog events. Remote syslog is a tremendously useful feature for aggregating log data from many hosts on a network - I've always used it so my network devices can log somewhere I'm likely to look at, but I haven't been able to do that since journald arrived.
While there are many ways to skin this goose, the method I've chosen is a tiny Python daemon that listens on syslog's UDP port (514), does minimal processing of the data and then feeds it into journald via its API, to get the data as rich as possible (since one of journald's strengths is that it can store a lot more metadata about a log entry).
So, here is the source for the daemon, and here is the systemd service file that manages it - note that it runs as an unprivileged user, with the sole privilege escalation of being able to bind to low port numbers (something only root can do normally).
The daemon is certainly not perfect (patches welcome!), but it works. Here is a journald log entry from one of my UniFi access points:
Jun 15 21:28:26 gnubert ("U7PG2,802aa8d48ab3,v3.9.27.8537")[23506]: kernel: [4251792.410000] [wifi1] FWLOG: [58855274] BEACON_EVENT_SWBA_SEND_FAILED ( )
(the more syslog-obsessed among you will notice that I'm setting the identifier to the hostname of the device that sent the message. Internally, the facility is mapped correctly, as is the priority. The text of the message then appears, prepended by its identifier.