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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 123rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS You can also contribute to the syslog-ng OSE documentation The up-to-date syslog-ng Administration Guide received a…

Last time we looked at how syslog-ng can send logs to Quickwit using its Elasticsearch compatible API. This time we are going to look at how to use the OpenTelemetry protocol to send logs to Quickwit with syslog-ng. Before you begin On the syslog-ng …

We are always looking for new ways to store log messages. Quickwit is a new contender, designed for log storage, and among others, it also provides an Elasticsearch-compatible API. From this blog, you can learn about Quickwit, and how to forward log …

For many years, the official syslog-ng container and development containers were based on Debian Testing. We are switching to Debian Stable now. Learn about the history and the reasons for the change now. Why Debian Testing? For many years, Debian Te…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 122nd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 4.8.0 of syslog-ng improves FreeBSD and MacOS support Recently One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its …

Last week One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its open-source log management application. Learn about some of the new features and bug fixes: why upgrade to the latest syslog-ng version, not only on FreeBSD :-) Before you begin If you want to try …

The syslog-ng configuration starts with a version number declaration. Up until recently, if it was missing, syslog-ng did not start. With syslog-ng 4.8, this is changing. From this blog, you can learn why version information is useful, what workaroun…

Syslog-ng uses a container-based system to generate the official source tgz and to build ready-to-use packages for various Linux distributions. Recently, we added support for some rolling RPM Linux distributions, allowing us to spot breaking changes …

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 121st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Trends in open source logging Recently I was asked by Chas Clawson of Sumo Logic what I think about open source lo…

The up-to-date syslog-ng Administration Guide received a new look and easier navigation, as well as better search experience. Best of all, you can now also easily contribute to the syslog-ng documentation. The problem Up until recently, the syslog-ng…

Do you want to know how your log messages arrived to syslog-ng? The new $TRANSPORT macro provides you with part of the answer. It shows you the protocol variant for network sources, or the kind of local source used. Before you begin You need a suffic…

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that collects metrics from your hosts and applications, allowing you to visualize and alert on them. The syslog-ng Prometheus exporter allows you to export syslog-ng statistics, so that Prometheus can co…