Version 4.9.0 of syslog-ng has been available for some time. However, it is not available yet in FreeBSD ports, as there were compilation problems on FreeBSD 15-CURRENT. You can still install it using my own updated ports Makefile. I maintain my own…

Bastille, the lightweight jail (container) management system for FreeBSD, was already covered here. Recently, they released Bastille 1.0 and BastilleBSD, a hardened FreeBSD variant that comes with Bastille pre-installed. What is Bastille? Bastille…

Last year, I wrote a small configuration snippet for syslog-ng: FreeBSD audit source. I published it in a previous blog , and based on feedback, it is already used in production. And soon, it will be available also as part of a syslog-ng release. As…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 126th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng Two weeks ago, I was at EuroBSDcon and received a feature request for syslog…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 124th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 4.8.0 of syslog-ng improves FreeBSD and MacOS support Recently One Identity released version 4.8.0…

Two weeks ago, I was at EuroBSDcon and received a feature request for syslog-ng. The user wanted to collect FreeBSD audit logs together with other logs using syslog-ng. Writing a native driver in C is time consuming. However, creating an integration based…

Last week One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its open-source log management application. Learn about some of the new features and bug fixes: why upgrade to the latest syslog-ng version, not only on FreeBSD :-) Before you begin If you want to try…

In version 4 of syslog-ng, the role of Python became even more important. Previously, all parts of syslog-ng could be extended using Python code, but no actual Python code was provided with syslog-ng. Version 4.0 added a Kubernetes module implemented…

Unless there is a serious problem , FreeBSD ports usually contains the latest stable syslog-ng release. However, sometimes people want to compile a git snapshot to test a new feature or bugfix. To do that, one way is to generate a syslog-ng release tgz…

Version 4.0.1 of syslog-ng was released a month ago. Unfortunately, the new release does not compile on FreeBSD. It was a temporary problem in the environment generating the source tgz. The next release is still almost a month away, but you can compile…

The syslog-ng team publishes nightly syslog-ng git snapshot builds for Debian and Ubuntu . I publish weekly snapshot builds for RPM distributions. Recently, I was asked if creating git snapshot builds for FreeBSD is also possible. Yes, it is. That is…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 91st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS syslog-ng 3.32 is now available Highlights include multi-threaded connection pooling to MongoDB servers and…

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…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 80th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. In these difficult times, when many of us stay at home, we can decide what to do with that bit of extra time that we…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 79th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Introducing the syslog-ng-stable RPM repositories For many years – especially after syslog-ng changed to a rolling…

My original blog about getting started with syslog-ng on FreeBSD became outdated. The content was updated and extended a bit, and with some help from the FreeBSD community, it is now available on the FreeBSD wiki at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/sysutils…

Bastille is a container management system for FreeBSD. If you are coming from a Linux world, it is a bit like Docker or Podman / Buildah from Red Hat, at least some of its functionality. I learned about BastilleBSD right before my Christmas holidays.…

I define syslog-ng, as an “Enhanced logging daemon with a focus on portability and high-performance central log collection”. One of the original goals of syslog-ng was portability: running the same application on a wide variety of architectures and operating…

Even if I do not maintain a cluster of FreeBSD servers with thousands of jails anymore, my favorite server operating system is still FreeBSD. I started using it at version 2.X well over twenty years ago. Yesterday, FreeBSD 11.0 was released . For a complete…

FOSDEM is one of the largest open source conferences in the world, with over 8000 participants. As many developers gather not just from Europe but from all around the world, there are a number of pre- and post conferences timed to happen before and after…