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 Photon…

Dear syslog-ng users,

This is the 99th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

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syslog-ng future: the path to syslog-ng 4

Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, describes the path to…

Version 3.35.1 of syslog-ng introduced an MQTT source. Just for some fun in the last syslog-ng blog post of the year, I created an endless loop using syslog-ng and the Mosquitto MQTT broker. Of course, it does not have much practical value other than…

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This is the 96th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

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syslog-ng 3.35.1 available

Version 3.35.1 of syslog-ng is released. New features include:

• APT repo for x86 Debian…

Dear syslog-ng users,

This is the 95th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

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Elasticsearch 7.14 and OpenSearch 1.0 are available – and work fine with syslog-ng

One of the most popular destinations…

Version 3.33 of syslog-ng arrived with basic MQTT support. Version 3.34 has added many important features to it: user authentication, TLS support and WebSocket support. These features give you both security and flexibility while sending log messages to…

Version 3.33 of syslog-ng introduced an MQTT destination. It uses the paho-c client library to send log messages to an MQTT broker. The current implementation supports version 3.1 and 3.1.1 of the protocol over non-encrypted connections, but this is only…

In my past two Python blogs I introduced you to the basics of the syslog-ng Python destination. In this blog I show you a working example of how you can publish your logs to MQTT using the Python destination of syslog-ng. If you are new to the Python…