Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 78th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
Keeping syslog-ng portable
I define syslog-ng as an “Enhanced logging daemon with a focus on portability and ...
Last week, we explored the different syslog-ng packages available for RPM-based Linux distributions, used by the majority of our Linux users. This week, we focus on FreeBSD, the platform of choice for most of our non-Linux users.
From this blog, you …
Last week I posted about my new syslog-ng-stable RPM repositories. I tried to explain the use case and how it relates to my other repos, nonetheless I got some questions. So, in this blog I provide you an overview of syslog-ng RPM repositories: why t…
For many years – especially after syslog-ng changed to a rolling release model – users I talked to asked for up-to-date RPM packages. They also asked for a separate repository for each new release to avoid surprises (a new release might a...
The syslog-ng application is included in all major Linux distributions, and you can usually install syslog-ng from the official repositories. If the core functionality of syslog-ng meets your needs, use the package in your distribution repository (yu…
Bastille is a container management system for FreeBSD. If you are coming from a Linux world, it is a bit like Docker or Podman / Buildah from Red Hat, at least some of its functionality. I learned about BastilleBSD right before my Christmas holidays.…
I define syslog-ng, as an “Enhanced logging daemon with a focus on portability and high-performance central log collection”. One of the original goals of syslog-ng was portability: running the same application on a wide variety of archite...
Mac support is a returning question among syslog-ng users, especially when I talk to users in the US. For recent releases, each commit is automatically tested on macOS, on the other hand there is not much information available on Mac support. Recentl…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 77th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
Set up Kibana 7 for syslog-ng & GeoIP
Version 7 of the Elastic stack was released a few months ago, and brought...
As we learned in my previous blog, upgrading syslog-ng PE 6 to 7 is no more difficult than any major version upgrade. The key here is to use the latest version of PE 7 (at least version 7.0.17), as it has the necessary compatibility fixes to make the…
Version 8, a new major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was released this spring. Now that CentOS 8 is also available, there is a rapidly growing interest in syslog-ng running on these platforms. From this blog, you can learn about the availabilit…
A question I often receive is ‘what are the differences between rsyslog and syslog-ng?’ It’s a little tricky to answer. First, because my experience is mostly with syslog-ng, and because there are many similarities between the two p...
