diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/syslog/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/syslog/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e8eabcf43b30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/syslog/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, findlib }:
+
+assert stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast (stdenv.lib.getVersion ocaml) "4.03.0";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-syslog";
+  version = "1.5";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "rixed";
+    repo = "ocaml-syslog";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1kqpc55ppzv9n555qgqpda49n7nvkqimzisyjx2a7338r7q4r5bw";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ];
+
+  createFindlibDestdir = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/rixed/ocaml-syslog;
+    description = "Simple wrapper to access the system logger from OCaml";
+    license = licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+    platforms = ocaml.meta.platforms or [];
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.rixed ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index 76de3197b1dc..46a00b698e34 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ let
 
     ocaml_sqlite3 = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/sqlite3 { };
 
+    syslog = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/syslog { };
+
     ocaml_text = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text { };
 
     ocf = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocf { };