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    • Syslog-ng on BSDs

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      My FOSDEM presentation in the BSD devroom showcased what is new in sudo and syslog-ng and explained how to install or compile these software yourself on FreeBSD. Not only am I a long time FreeBSD user (started with version 1.0 in 1994) I also work on…
      • 24 Feb 2021
    • Collecting logs from Windows using syslog-ng

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Normally I cover free and open-source software in the syslog-ng blog. But recently quite a few members of the community reached out to me and asked about collecting logs from Windows. So, I prepared a quick overview of the topic. The good news is, th…
      • 17 Feb 2021
    • The syslog-ng insider 2021-02: proxy protocol; sudo JSON; Kafka;

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 88th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Finding the real source IP: using the PROXY protocol Until now collecting logs behind proxies or load balancers n…
      • 11 Feb 2021
    • Grafana, Loki, syslog-ng: jump-starting a new logging stack

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Talking to syslog-ng users, I found that many of them plan to take a closer look at Grafana, due to the upheaval around the change of licensing terms for Elastic. Luckily, it is now possible to jump-start the complete, new logging stack – inclu...
      • 2 Feb 2021
    • Running syslog-ng in Bastille – revisited

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Bastille is a container management system for FreeBSD, similar to Docker or Podman on Linux. The historical name of containers on FreeBSD is jail, and they appeared a lot earlier than containers on Linux. Managing jails was not always easy. When I st…
      • 26 Jan 2021
    • Consuming logs from a Kafka topic using syslog-ng

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      There is no official Kafka source in syslog-ng, but because this question comes up often enough, I created one. It is just a temporary workaround using the program() source, but it works. It involves Java and installing Kafka manually, but it was fas…
      • 19 Jan 2021
    • Kafka destination improved with template support in syslog-ng

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      The C implementation of the Kafka destination in syslog-ng has been improved in version 3.30. Support for templates in topic names was added as a result of a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. The advantage of the new template support feature is t…
      • 12 Jan 2021
    • The syslog-ng Insider 2020-12: web interfaces; Grafana Loki; Amazon Linux 2;

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 87th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Web interfaces for your syslog server – an overview This is the 2020 edition of my most read blog entry about s...
      • 10 Dec 2020
    • Parsing sudo JSON logs: building a syslog-ng configuration

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      The latest version of sudo, version 1.9.4 includes support for JSON formatted logging. Compared to traditional sudo logs, it has the advantage of containing more information in a structured way. While traditional sudo logs are also parsed automatical…
      • 2 Dec 2020
    • Web interfaces for your syslog server – an overview

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      This is the 2020 edition of my most read blog entry about syslog-ng web-based graphical user interfaces (web GUIs). Many things have changed in the past few years. In 2011, only a single logging as a service solution was available, while nowadays, I …
      • 24 Nov 2020
    • Finding the real source IP: using the PROXY protocol with syslog-ng

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Until now collecting logs behind proxies or load balancers needed some compromises. You either trusted the host information included in the log messages or you could only see the proxy as the sender host. Starting with syslog-ng 3.30 there is a third…
      • 17 Nov 2020
    • The syslog-ng Insider 2020-10: LaaS; PAN-OS; Security Onion; New Relic;

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 86th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS How to use syslog-ng with LaaS and why? The first Logging as a Service (LaaS) I learned about many years ago was crea…
      • 12 Nov 2020
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