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From my previous Active Roles blogs, you could learn how to forward regular Active Roles logs from Windows Event Log to a central syslog-ng server, where it parses, filters, stores and forwards the logs. In this blog, I show you how to work with Acti…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 130th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Testing Elasticsearch 9.0.0 beta1 with syslog-ng Each time a new major Elasticsearch version is released, someone …

Last week, I posted about running nightly syslog-ng container images on arm64. However, you can also install syslog-ng directly on the host (in my case, a Raspberry Pi 3), running the latest Raspberry OS. Before you begin Right now, syslog-ng nightly…

Recently we enabled nightly syslog-ng builds and container builds for arm64. It means that from now on, you can run the latest syslog-ng on 64bit ARM platforms. Before you begin For this test, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 running the latest Raspberry Pi O…

For many years, the development of syslog-ng happened on the master branch in Git. However, if you follow that branch, you might have noticed that there has not been much activity on it lately. That is because we introduced a new branch in git called…

Each time a new major Elasticsearch version is released, someone asks if it works with syslog-ng. So I gave it a quick test and based on that, it works fine. But of course, some terms and conditions apply… :-) Before you begin On the syslog-ng...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 129th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Test syslog-ng on EPEL 10! CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL 10 just became available, and as usual, I tried to build sy…

In my previous Active Roles blog, you learned how to forward Active Roles logs to a central syslog-ng server to parse and store the logs. In this blog, I’ll show you how to: - Work with parsed Active Roles logs. - Store logs to various document...

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One Identity Active Roles allows you to easily and securely manage Active Directory (AD), Entra ID and M365 Identity objects. While Active Roles stores its log messages into Windows Event Log, most log management and log analytics applications expect…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 128th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Syslog-ng Prometheus exporter added to RPM syslog-ng container image Recently I introduced you to my latest proj…

Recently I have posted a Dockerfile to run syslog-ng in an Alma Linux container. I got some encouraging feedback, so this week I experimented with syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE) in a RHEL UBI (Universal Base Image) container. While this is not offici…