diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-install/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-install/tasks/main.yml
index de448a363..cf2e08046 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-install/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-install/tasks/main.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
     - rsyslog
     - rsyslog-elasticsearch
     - rsyslog-mmjsonparse
-    - rsyslog-mmutf8fix
   register: install_rsyslog
   ignore_errors: true
 
@@ -33,16 +32,16 @@
 
 - name: Add repository
   yum_repository:
-    name: rsyslog_v8
-    description: Up to date rsyslog
-    baseurl: http://rpms.adiscon.com/v8-stable/epel-7/x86_64/
+    name: CentOS-7-Base
+    description: Core CentOS7 Packages
+    baseurl: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/$basearch/
   become: true
   when: install_rsyslog|failed
 
 - name: Add key
   rpm_key:
     state: present
-    key: http://rpms.adiscon.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-Adiscon
+    key: https://www.centos.org/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7
   become: true
   when: install_rsyslog|failed
 
@@ -55,5 +54,4 @@
     - rsyslog
     - rsyslog-elasticsearch
     - rsyslog-mmjsonparse
-    - rsyslog-mmutf8fix
   when: install_rsyslog|failed
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/tasks/main.yml
index b9bd21f9a..60ef38b66 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/tasks/main.yml
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@
     dest: /etc/rsyslog.d/listen.conf
   become: true
 
+- name: Template primary config
+  template:
+    src: rsyslog.conf.j2
+    dest: /etc/rsyslog.conf
+  become: true
+
 - name: Install selinux utils
   yum:
     name: policycoreutils-python
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/05-outputs.conf.j2 b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/05-outputs.conf.j2
index 8b00d116b..813ff9877 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/05-outputs.conf.j2
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/05-outputs.conf.j2
@@ -19,6 +19,3 @@ action(
 {% if rsyslog_forwarding and not rsyslog_aggregator %}
 action(type="omfwd" Target="{{rsyslog_aggregator_server}}" Port="{{rsyslog_aggregator_port}}" Protocol="tcp" Template="ViaQ_SyslogProtocol23Format")
 {% endif %}
-
-# Drop messages before they get to /var/log/messages
-stop
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/rsyslog.conf.j2 b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/rsyslog.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7bd058b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/rsyslog-templates/templates/rsyslog.conf.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Browbeat Rsyslog config defaults blown away for consistency in logging
+
+# Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/                                                                                                                                                 │
+$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
+
+# Prevents messages from getting dumped to /var/log/messages
+stop