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…

Learn how to send log messages in bulk mode to your Elasticsearch server with syslog-ng. Bulk mode offers better performance, because it sends multiple log messages in a single POST request. A few years back I wrote that any time a new language bind…

Each syslog-ng release comes with one or more larger features that steal the show from very useful but smaller features. Now I collect these small features and explain how they can make your life easier. Learn what is coming up in syslog-ng version 3…