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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 108th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 4.1 of syslog-ng available Version 4.1.1 of syslog-ng is now available. It brings PROXY protocol v2 su…

This is the 12th part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about enriching log messages using syslog-ng. Today, we learn about how to send log messages to Elasticsearch. You can watch the video or read the text below. https://youtu.be/44rF…

This is the eleventh part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about message parsing using syslog-ng. Today, we learn about enriching log messages. You can watch the video or read the text below. https://youtu.be/tFHyvLgiSyI Enriching log …

This is the tenth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about syslog-ng filters. Today, we learn about message parsing using syslog-ng. You can watch the video or read the text below. https://youtu.be/xZwYqUrvdqw Parsing Parsing create…

This is the ninth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about macros and templates. Today, we learn about syslog-ng filters. At the end of the session, we will see a more complex filter and a template function. You can watch the video …

Unless there is a serious problem, FreeBSD ports usually contains the latest stable syslog-ng release. However, sometimes people want to compile a git snapshot to test a new feature or bugfix. To do that, one way is to generate a syslog-ng release tg…

This is the eighth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about network logging. Today, we learn about syslog-ng macros and templates. At the end of the session, we will know how to do a simple log rotation using macros. You can watch t…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 107th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 4.0 of syslog-ng available After almost 14 years, a new major version of syslog-ng is available. Type …

This is the seventh part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about syslog-ng destinations and the log path. Today, we learn about syslog-ng network logging. At the end of the session, we will send test messages to a syslog-ng network sour…

Version 4.0.1 of syslog-ng was released a month ago. Unfortunately, the new release does not compile on FreeBSD. It was a temporary problem in the environment generating the source tgz. The next release is still almost a month away, but you can compi…

This is the sixth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about syslog-ng source definitions and how to check the syslog-ng version. Today, we learn about syslog-ng destinations and the log path. At the end of the session, we will also p…

This is the fifth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time we had an overview of the syslog-ng configuration and had our first steps working with syslog-ng. Today we learn about syslog-ng source definitions and how to check the syslog-ng version and …