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Most of August, I was on vacation, but now I’m back and I try catching up on the events of the past weeks, just like my colleagues do. Currently, we are fixing issues and reviewing contributions, but we also discussed scaling back our efforts o...
For many years, syslog-ng used Java, where C libraries were unavailable. However, over the years native C libraries became available for Elasticsearch and Kafka, and HDFS practically disappeared. As a “scream test”, I am going to disable ...
While most Java-based drivers have been deprecated in syslog-ng years ago, we have recently removed all of them in preparation to syslog-ng 4.9.0. Right now, the only Java-based driver remaining is HDFS, so we want to ask the syslog-ng community if t...
Technology is continuously evolving. There are regular changes in platforms running syslog-ng: old technologies disappear, and new technologies are introduced. While we try to provide stability and continuity to our users, we also need to adapt. Pyth...
When your application has a problem that it cannot handle, then Java, PHP and other environments often write multi-line error messages. These long messages include many information useful for developers but it might be difficult to handle for logging...
Elasticsearch is gaining momentum as the ultimate destination for log messages. There are two major reasons for this: You can store arbitrary name-value pairs coming from structured logging or message parsing. You can use Kibana as a search and v...
Even if I do not maintain a cluster of FreeBSD servers with thousands of jails anymore, my favorite server operating system is still FreeBSD. I started using it at version 2.X well over twenty years ago. Yesterday, FreeBSD 11.0 was released . For...
Java based destination drivers were introduced to syslog-ng last year. The syslog-ng application uses libjvm.so to embed a Java Virtual Machine inside syslog-ng. Java libraries tend to have a large binary footprint, even just the Java Runtime Environ...