Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 116th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Why use a http()-based destination in syslog-ng? Logging is not just syslog anymore. Still, many syslog-ng users s…

Many Linux distributions provide build services under various names: openSUSE Build Service (OBS), Fedora Copr, and so on. These resources are indispensable for upstream developers, and also for their users. I will demonstrate this through some examp…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 115th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Compressing HTTP traffic in syslog-ng Network traffic is expensive in the cloud, and even a single syslog-ng insta…

One of the most frequent syslog-ng feature requests is now resolved. Welcome the --check-startup option, allowing you to check the syntax and also spot spelling mistakes! Before you begin To use the --check-startup option, you need version 4.5.0 or l…

Recently, syslog-ng 4.5.0 was released with many new features. These include sending logs to OpenObserve using its JSON API, support for Google Pub/Sub, a new macro describing message transport mechanisms like RFC 3164 + TCP, an SSL option to ignore …

Logging into Humio (which was recently re-branded to Falcon LogScale) was available for years, using their Elasticsearch compatible API. However, according to Humio developers, it is slightly slower than other APIs for log ingestion. Axoflow contribu…

Initial support for systemd-journal namespaces is available in syslog-ng 3.29. However, only version 4.4.0 allows you to work with multiple namespaces in your syslog-ng configuration. So, what changed in the latest version of syslog-ng? Previously, y…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 114th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Sending logs to Splunk using syslog-ng There are many ways you can collect log messages using syslog-ng and forwar…

There are many ways you can collect log messages using syslog-ng and forward them to Splunk. In this blog I collect the history of Splunk support in syslog-ng, and the advantages and disadvantages of various solutions, both open source and commercial…

Logging is not just syslog anymore. Still, many syslog-ng users stick to using one of the syslog protocols for log transport and flat files for log storage. While most SIEMs and log analytics tools can receive syslog messages or read them using their…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 113th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Why contribute to syslog-ng upstream? One of the returning questions I received recently: why contribute to the …

Network traffic is expensive in the cloud, and even a single syslog-ng instance can easily saturate the full bandwidth of a network connection. Compressing HTTP traffic was introduced in syslog-ng Version 4.4.0 and depending on your use case, you can…