The official syslog-ng container image is based on Debian Stable. However, we’ve been getting requests for an RPM-based image for many years. So, I made an initial version available based on Alma Linux and now I need your feedback about it!
This…
The official syslog-ng container image is based on Debian Stable. However, we’ve been getting requests for an RPM-based image for many years. So, I made an initial version available based on Alma Linux and now I need your feedback about it!
This…
For many years, the official syslog-ng container and development containers were based on Debian Testing. We are switching to Debian Stable now. Learn about the history and the reasons for the change now.
For many years, Debian Testing…
The syslog-ng team started publishing container images many years ago. For quite a while, it was a manual process, however, a few releases ago, publishing a container image became part of the release process. Recently, nightly container images have also…
Talking to syslog-ng users, I found that many of them plan to take a closer look at Grafana, due to the upheaval around the change of licensing terms for Elastic. Luckily, it is now possible to jump-start the complete, new logging stack – including Grafana…
DBLD is a central tool when it comes to syslog-ng development, but even after multiple blogs about the tool, it is still not much used outside of the developers’ team. So, what is DBLD and how could it be used even by you? The abbreviation stands for…
“How can I install the unofficial syslog-ng packages on a machine without Internet access?” This question has been raised several times recently. As it entails more than simply downloading the repository containing the packages, syslog-ng lead developer…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 74th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you news related to syslog-ng.
In this blog post we show you a fun way of using the Python destination of syslog-ng. We will write…
The syslog-ng source code includes a container-based build system. You can use it to generate source tarballs (the official syslog-ng release tarball is also generated this way) and to build packages for RHEL 7 and different Debian and Ubuntu releases…
When a user reports a problem with syslog-ng, developers create code to fix it. The fix is called a patch or a pull request (PR) in Git terminology. Often this code does not enter the main source code automatically but developers ask the user to test…
It is the fourth year that syslog-ng has participated at Southern California Linux Expo or, as better known to many, SCALE ‒ the largest Linux event in the USA. In many ways, it is similar to FOSDEM in Europe, however, SCALE also focuses on users and…
DevConf is a yearly conference for developers, administrators, and users of Linux and related technologies. It is organized by Red Hat in Brno, home to one of their major development centers. This event was the 10th in a row and the largest ever. It collects…
This is the final blog post in a three-part series on logging in Docker using syslog-ng. I have already covered how to use syslog-ng in a Docker environment as a traditional central syslog server and how to collect host and container logs from the host…
Why use syslog-ng for collecting Docker logs? Docker already provides many drivers for logging, even for central log collection. On the other hand, remote logging drivers arrive with a minimalist feature set and you are not able to use the “docker logs…
Containerization, and Docker in particular, changed the way we distribute and run applications. I used containers – FreeBSD jails – for nearly twenty years, but Docker brought us the ease of use necessary for wide adoption. Containers provide isolated…
