Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 101st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
syslog-ng on the long term: a draft on strategic directions
Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng pr...
The syslog-ng disk buffer is one of the most often used syslog-ng options to ensure message delivery. However, it is not always necessary and using the safest variant has serious performance impacts. If you utilize disk-buffer in your syslog-ng confi…
What hardware to use for a syslog-ng server? It is a frequent question with no definite answer. It depends on many factors: the number and type of sources, the number of logs, the way logs are processed, and so on. My experience is that for the major…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 100th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
syslog-ng 4 theme: typing
Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, describes a major new syslog-ng...
This year the syslog-ng project will participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentor organization again. If you are a university student or otherwise eligible to participate in the GSoC program, you can choose to develop a new feature for…
For many years, you could use the match() filter of syslog-ng to parse log messages with regular expressions. However, the primary function of match() is filtering. Recent syslog-ng versions now have a dedicated regular expression parser, the regexp-…
The latest pull request to syslog-ng adds a really useful feature: the flip-parser(): https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/pull/3971
It allows you to flip the message text, reverse it, or both. As I also reported a couple of minor problems related …
There are multiple ways in syslog-ng to limit message rate. The throttle() option of syslog-ng destinations tries to make sure that all messages are delivered without exceeding a specified message rate. The rate-limit() filter introduced in syslog-ng…
Most of syslog-ng works perfectly well on MacOS; however, there is no native driver to collect local log messages. Due to this, in the past, the system() source did not work on MacOS, thus the default syslog-ng configuration failed to start. Version …
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 99th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
syslog-ng future: the path to syslog-ng 4
Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, describes th...
Version 3.36 of syslog-ng brings us many interesting new features. There is now basic support for system() source on MacOS, TLS 1.3 ciphers can now be restricted, TLS keylog support was added, symlink creation to the latest file, and there are many n…
