Using python-fetcher() simplifies developing a source driver for syslog-ng even further. You do not have to implement your own eventloop, since syslog-ng does it for you. You only need to focus on what information you need and how you (or your code) …

“I'd tell you the joke about UDP, but you might not get it.” The old joke above perfectly summarizes UDP. There is no guarantee (frankly, not even a real effort) that data sent over UDP ever reaches the receiving end. Still, a surprisingl...

I used containers (namely, FreeBSD jail) in production already in 2001. Still, it was the tool and company called Docker that made the use of containers mainstream. Fast forward another few years and you can hear the names skopeo, buildah and podman …

HTTP is quickly becoming the universal transport protocol of the Internet. Nowadays even DNS over HTTPS implementations are available. There is no HTTP source implemented in C for syslog-ng, but starting with syslog-ng version 3.18, you can write new…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 72nd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Creating a central syslog server Your home network might already contain some devices or systems like a home server, …

One of the many ways members of a team collaborate is to use Slack. From syslog-ng version 3.19, you can send log messages to Slack. You can receive critical log messages in real-time in your Slack client on your mobile or desktop. Learn how to set u…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 71st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 3.19 of syslog-ng released Version 3.19 of syslog-ng has been released with plenty of new features and bugf…

Learn how to use less resources for better performance in Splunk! Many people have been using syslog-ng for decades without knowing that it receives new features as well as bugfixes. While many Linux utilities are practically in maintenance mode, sys…

As we learned at the Splunk .conf18 this October, forwarding SNMP traps to Splunk can be a challenging task. Luckily, using syslog-ng can simplify it for us. All we need to make sure about is that snmptrapd logs traps to a file. The syslog-ng applica…

Last week I presented syslog-ng at SuriCon 2018 in Vancouver. In this blog post you can read a slightly modified version of that talk: a bit less emphasis on the introduction and a bit more on the explanation of the syslog-ng configuration part. The …

Using syslog-ng 3.18 and newer releases, you can write new source drivers for syslog-ng in Python. While performance is not as good as C, you gain flexibility and ease of implementation. There are quite a few log sources without a ready to use C API,…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 70th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 3.18 of syslog-ng released Version 3.18 of syslog-ng has been released with plenty of new features and bugf…