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Last week, we released syslog-ng 4.8.2, containing a CVE fix along with improvements to the Elasticsearch and S3 destinations. As such, an upgrade is highly recommended. Version 4.8.3 does not bring any code changes, just a fix to the release process…

Finally, a new syslog-ng release! As you can see from its version number, this is a bug fix release. It took a bit longer than expected, as we wanted to release it in sync with syslog-ng PE, the commercial variant of syslog-ng. 4.8.2 serves not just …

While no dates are set to stone yet, we expect a couple of syslog-ng releases in the near future. As version 4.8.1 is used in major Linux distributions and has a couple of known bugs, we will release 4.8.2 to address those. However, we are also worki…

From my previous Active Roles blogs, you could learn how to forward regular Active Roles logs from Windows Event Log to a central syslog-ng server, where it parses, filters, stores and forwards the logs. In this blog, I show you how to work with Acti…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 130th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Testing Elasticsearch 9.0.0 beta1 with syslog-ng Each time a new major Elasticsearch version is released, someone …

Last week, I posted about running nightly syslog-ng container images on arm64. However, you can also install syslog-ng directly on the host (in my case, a Raspberry Pi 3), running the latest Raspberry OS. Before you begin Right now, syslog-ng nightly…

Recently we enabled nightly syslog-ng builds and container builds for arm64. It means that from now on, you can run the latest syslog-ng on 64bit ARM platforms. Before you begin For this test, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 running the latest Raspberry Pi O…

For many years, the development of syslog-ng happened on the master branch in Git. However, if you follow that branch, you might have noticed that there has not been much activity on it lately. That is because we introduced a new branch in git called…

Each time a new major Elasticsearch version is released, someone asks if it works with syslog-ng. So I gave it a quick test and based on that, it works fine. But of course, some terms and conditions apply… :-) Before you begin On the syslog-ng...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 129th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Test syslog-ng on EPEL 10! CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL 10 just became available, and as usual, I tried to build sy…

In my previous Active Roles blog, you learned how to forward Active Roles logs to a central syslog-ng server to parse and store the logs. In this blog, I’ll show you how to: - Work with parsed Active Roles logs. - Store logs to various document...

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