diff --git a/protofiles/LogMessage.proto b/protofiles/LogMessage.proto
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9bb94d35b563d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/protofiles/LogMessage.proto
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package protoMsg;
+
+option java_package = "com.logrhythm.nm.message";
+option java_outer_classname = "LogMessageMsg";
+
+message LogMessage {
+  enum LogType {
+     NORMALIZED = 0;
+     FULL = 1;
+     INTERMEDIATE = 2;
+     DEBUG = 3;
+     SYSTEM = 4;
+     EVENT = 5;
+  }
+  enum SourceType {
+     DPIMSG = 0;
+     JSON = 1;
+     RAW = 2;
+  }
+  enum SystemSubtype {
+     RESTART = 0;
+     FATAL_ERROR = 1;
+     UPGRADE = 2;
+     INDEX_DELETE = 3;
+     CONFIG_CHANGE = 4;
+     ADMIN_PASSWD_CHANGE = 5;
+     USER_ADD = 6;
+     USER_DEL = 7;
+     PCAP_DOWNLOAD = 8;
+     UNKNOWN = 9;
+  }
+  
+  optional LogType outputType = 1; 
+  repeated SourceType inputType = 2;
+  repeated string inputData = 3;
+  repeated SystemSubtype systemSubType = 4;
+  repeated string eventName = 5;
+}
+
+
diff --git a/scripts/buildProtoFiles.sh b/scripts/buildProtoFiles.sh
index 08d4f82d0eae7f..319d0b010ed877 100755
--- a/scripts/buildProtoFiles.sh
+++ b/scripts/buildProtoFiles.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ if [ ! -f "$phpprotoc" ]; then
   sh "$scriptsDir"/getPhpProtobuffers.sh
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$cppSrcDir"/liblrdpi "$cppSrcDir"/libstats "$cppSrcDir"/libconf $cppSrcDir/libcommand "$cppSrcDir"/libprocess "$cppSrcDir"/liblua "$cppSrcDir"/libtools "$cppSrcDir"/libfork "$cppSrcDir"/liblicense
+mkdir -p "$cppSrcDir"/liblrdpi "$cppSrcDir"/libstats "$cppSrcDir"/libconf $cppSrcDir/libcommand "$cppSrcDir"/libprocess "$cppSrcDir"/liblua "$cppSrcDir"/libtools "$cppSrcDir"/libfork "$cppSrcDir"/liblicense "$cppSrcDir"/libmessages
 
 cp "$protoFileDir"/DpiMsgLRproto.proto "$protoFileDir"/DpiMsgLRproto.proto.orig
 cp "$protoFileDir"/Applications.proto "$protoFileDir"/Applications.proto.orig
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ cd "$cppSrcDir"
 "$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --cpp_out=liblicense  "$protoFileDir"/LicenseReply.proto
 "$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --cpp_out=liblicense  "$protoFileDir"/LicenseRequest.proto
 "$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --cpp_out=liblicense  "$protoFileDir"/License.proto
+"$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --cpp_out=libmessages  "$protoFileDir"/LogMessage.proto
 mv  liblrdpi/DpiMsgLRproto.pb.cc liblrdpi/DpiMsgLRproto.pb.cpp
 mv  liblrdpi/Applications.pb.cc liblrdpi/Applications.pb.cpp
 mv  libstats/StatsMsg.pb.cc  libstats/StatsMsg.pb.cpp
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ mv  libfork/ForkerRequest.pb.cc  libfork/ForkerRequest.pb.cpp
 mv  liblicense/LicenseReply.pb.cc  liblicense/LicenseReply.pb.cpp
 mv  liblicense/LicenseRequest.pb.cc  liblicense/LicenseRequest.pb.cpp
 mv  liblicense/License.pb.cc  liblicense/License.pb.cpp
+mv  libmessages/LogMessage.pb.cc  libmessages/LogMessage.pb.cpp
 cd "$startDir"
 
 mkdir -p "$phpSrcDir"