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…
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...
Yes, Microsoft has its own Linux distribution, called CBL-Mariner. It is an internal Linux distribution by Microsoft used for cloud infrastructure and edge products and services. And even if it is not installed in the OS by default, CBL-Mariner also …
Last time, we had an overview of the syslog-ng disk-buffer. This time, we dig a bit deeper and take a quick look at how it works, and a recent major change that helped speed up the reliable disk-buffer considerably.
You can read my disk-buffer overvi…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 became generally available recently. Version 3.35 of syslog-ng has been part of EPEL 9 (the semi-official extra software repo for RHEL maintained by Fedora packagers) for a while and now I enabled a few more destination dri…
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…
