Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 96th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS syslog-ng 3.35.1 available Version 3.35.1 of syslog-ng is released. New features include: APT repo for x86 Debi…

One of the most popular applications to feed Splunk with syslog messages is syslog-ng. However not everyone is happy to work on the command line anymore. This is where syslog-ng store box (SSB), an appliance built around syslog-ng, can help. The SSB …

We are well into the 21st century, but most of the log messages still arrive in an unstructured format. For well over a decade, syslog-ng had a solution to turn unstructured messages into name-value pairs, called PatternDB. However, creating a patter…

One of the most popular syslog-ng destinations is Elasticsearch. Humio, a log management provider, supports a broad range of ingest options and interfaces, including an Elasticsearch-compatible API. Last week, Humio announced Humio Community Edition,…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 95th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Elasticsearch 7.14 and OpenSearch 1.0 are available – and work fine with syslog-ng One of the most popular des...

Panther is an open-source log management system, which is also available as a service for a time-limited trial. It is still in beta phase, but it looks promising. You can see the “beta” sign on its opening page: https://app.panther.suppor…

One of the returning questions I get at conferences in the US is if and how syslog-ng works on MacOS. Thanks to Yash Mathne, who worked on syslog-ng as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student this year, we have a much more precise answer now. To sum i…

Version 3.33 of syslog-ng arrived with basic MQTT support. Version 3.34 has added many important features to it: user authentication, TLS support and WebSocket support. These features give you both security and flexibility while sending log messages …

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 94th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 3.34.1 available Version 3.34.1 of syslog-ng has been released with many interesting new features. There is …

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 93rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Sending alerts to Discord and others from syslog-ng using Apprise: blocks and Python templates From this blog, you …

For the past couple of months, Yash Mathne has been working on testing syslog-ng on MacOS as a GSoC (Google Summer of Code) student. He worked both on x86 and on the freshly released ARM hardware. And we have some good news here to share: while there…

Process accounting logs are collected into binary log files on Linux. You can turn them into human readable format locally, using various tools. You can also use syslog-ng to read those files. Syslog-ng can parse those binary logs, create name-value …