diff --git a/dockers/docker-base/etc/rsyslog.conf b/dockers/docker-base/etc/rsyslog.conf
index cf5509a3e8b3..863c11d8c17a 100644
--- a/dockers/docker-base/etc/rsyslog.conf
+++ b/dockers/docker-base/etc/rsyslog.conf
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog
 #
 $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 
+#
+# Suppress duplicate messages and report "message repeated n times"
+#
+$RepeatedMsgReduction on
 
 ###############
 #### RULES ####
diff --git a/files/image_config/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2 b/files/image_config/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2
index 063f119f6bdd..e714fcec5ab4 100644
--- a/files/image_config/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2
+++ b/files/image_config/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog
 #
 $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 
+#
+# Suppress duplicate messages and report "message repeated n times"
+#
+$RepeatedMsgReduction on
 
 ###############
 #### RULES ####
diff --git a/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/Dockerfile.j2 b/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/Dockerfile.j2
index 09849a7ae143..4988cbdb5393 100644
--- a/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/Dockerfile.j2
+++ b/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/Dockerfile.j2
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ RUN sed -ri 's/^(save .*$)/# \1/g;
             ' /etc/redis/redis.conf
 
 ADD port_config.ini /port_config.ini
-ADD rsyslog.conf /etc/rsyslog.conf
 COPY ["start.sh", "orchagent.sh", "config_bm.sh", "/usr/bin/"]
 COPY ["supervisord.conf", "/etc/supervisor/conf.d/"]
 COPY ["files/configdb-load.sh", "/usr/bin/"]
diff --git a/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/rsyslog.conf b/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/rsyslog.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 79926a8b30c7..000000000000
--- a/platform/p4/docker-sonic-p4/rsyslog.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-###############################################################################
-# Managed by Ansible
-# file: ansible/roles/acs/templates/rsyslog.conf.j2
-###############################################################################
-#
-#  /etc/rsyslog.conf    Configuration file for rsyslog.
-#
-#                       For more information see
-#                       /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/rsyslog_conf.html
-
-
-#################
-#### MODULES ####
-#################
-
-$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging
-#$ModLoad imklog  # provides kernel logging support
-#$ModLoad immark  # provides --MARK-- message capability
-
-# provides UDP syslog reception
-#$ModLoad imudp
-#$UDPServerRun 514
-
-# provides TCP syslog reception
-#$ModLoad imtcp
-#$InputTCPServerRun 514
-
-
-###########################
-#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####
-###########################
-#Set remote syslog server
-#*.* @172.17.0.1:514
-#Set local syslog
-*.* /var/log/messages
-
-#
-# Use traditional timestamp format.
-# To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
-#
-#$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
-
-# Define a custom template
-$template SONiCFileFormat,"%TIMESTAMP%.%timestamp:::date-subseconds% %HOSTNAME% %syslogseverity-text:::uppercase% %syslogtag%%msg:::sp-if-no-1st-sp%%msg:::drop-last-lf%\n"
-$ActionFileDefaultTemplate SONiCFileFormat
-
-#
-# Set the default permissions for all log files.
-#
-$FileOwner root
-$FileGroup adm
-$FileCreateMode 0640
-$DirCreateMode 0755
-$Umask 0022
-
-#
-# Where to place spool and state files
-#
-$WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog
-
-#
-# Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/
-#
-$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
-
-
-###############
-#### RULES ####
-###############