Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 104th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS 3.38.1 released, 4.0 almost feature complete syslog-ng 4 is right around the corner. Instead of a pile of br…

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The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) appliance is built on syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. One of the typical use cases for SSB (and sy...

Last week I gave you a quick introduction to a major syslog-ng 4.0 feature: type support. I mentioned that it also works nicely for JSON-formatted sudo logs. I have been asked to share a working syslog-ng configuration. From this blog, you can learn …

Version 4.0 of syslog-ng is right around the corner. It hasn’tyet been released; however, you can already try some of its features. The largest and most interesting change is type support. Right now, name-value pairs within syslog-ng are repres...

A few weeks ago I wrote about syslog-ng in Microsoft’s own Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner. Vmware Photon OS 4.0 is another niche Linux distribution. It not only features syslog-ng, but syslog-ng is also up-to-date. The syslog-ng package in Pho…

Any time I see that one of the syslog-ng destinations has a major new version, I'm a bit scared, as it is not uncommon to introduce breaking changes with them. MongoDB 6.0, however, was a pleasant surprise. I gave it a quick try, and everything w...

The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) is an appliance built on syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. One of these features is the SQL source. ...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 103rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS RHEL 9 syslog-ng news Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 became generally available recently. Version 3.35 of syslog-ng ha…

The syslog-ng team made nightly builds available for Debian and Ubuntu running on the AMD64 architecture. These packages are not intended to be used in production, they are only for testing fixes and new features. Before you begin Normally, I list he…

Most people expect to see how many log messages are waiting in the disk-buffer from the size of the syslog-ng disk-buffer file.. While it was mostly true for earlier syslog-ng releases, for recent syslog-ng releases (3.34+) the disk-buffer file can s…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 102nd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS syslog-ng 3.37 released Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, describes the latest syslog-n...