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    • First steps of sending alerts to Discord and others from syslog-ng: http() and Apprise

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      A returning question I get is: “I see, that you can send alerts from syslog-ng to Slack and Telegram, but do you happen to support XYZ?” Replace XYZ with Discord and countless others. Up until recently, my regular answer has been: “...
      • 20 Apr 2021
    • The syslog-ng insider 2021-04: Grafana; Windows agent; BSD;

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 90th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Grafana, Loki, syslog-ng: jump-starting a new logging stack Talking to syslog-ng users, I found that many of them…
      • 15 Apr 2021
    • Changes in technologies supported by syslog-ng: Python 2, CentOS 6 & Co.

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Technology is continuously evolving. There are regular changes in platforms running syslog-ng: old technologies disappear, and new technologies are introduced. While we try to provide stability and continuity to our users, we also need to adapt. Pyth…
      • 6 Apr 2021
    • Collecting Windows EventLog without installing extra software on Windows

      csaba galffy
      csaba galffy
      Talking to users at both IT security and operations related conferences, they confessed the same: the less software the better. Less software to learn, maintain and follow in bug trackers. The Windows Event Collector (WEC) component of syslog-ng Prem…
      • 31 Mar 2021
    • Parsing Fortigate logs and other syslog-ng 3.31 news

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Version 3.31 of syslog-ng has been released recently. One of its most user-visible features is the parser for Fortigate logs, yet another networking vendor that produces log messages not conforming to syslog specifications. Parsing Fortigate logs bui…
      • 18 Mar 2021
    • Syslog-ng & Pi day

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Today is March 14th, or as many geeks refer to it: Pi day. On this occasion, I would like to show you a syslog-ng configuration, which prints a huge π on the screen, and two recent articles that feature syslog-ng on the Raspberry Pi. Printing π...
      • 14 Mar 2021
    • The syslog-ng insider 2021-03: Kafka; Windows; Bastille;

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 89th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Consuming logs from a Kafka topic There is no official Kafka source in syslog-ng, but because this question comes up…
      • 11 Mar 2021
    • Installing latest syslog-ng on openSUSE, RHEL and other RPM distributions

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      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…
      • 5 Mar 2021
    • When to use the syslog-ng agent for Windows?

      csaba galffy
      csaba galffy
      You can collect log messages from a Windows host in multiple ways using syslog-ng. For large scale installations the easiest is to use the Windows Event Collector (WEC) component of syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). This way you don’t have to ins...
      • 3 Mar 2021
    • Syslog-ng on BSDs

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      My FOSDEM presentation in the BSD devroom showcased what is new in sudo and syslog-ng and explained how to install or compile these software yourself on FreeBSD. Not only am I a long time FreeBSD user (started with version 1.0 in 1994) I also work on…
      • 24 Feb 2021
    • Collecting logs from Windows using syslog-ng

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Normally I cover free and open-source software in the syslog-ng blog. But recently quite a few members of the community reached out to me and asked about collecting logs from Windows. So, I prepared a quick overview of the topic. The good news is, th…
      • 17 Feb 2021
    • The syslog-ng insider 2021-02: proxy protocol; sudo JSON; Kafka;

      Peter Czanik
      Peter Czanik
      Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 88th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Finding the real source IP: using the PROXY protocol Until now collecting logs behind proxies or load balancers n…
      • 11 Feb 2021
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