Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 128th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Recently I introduced you to my latest project…
Recently I have posted a Dockerfile to run syslog-ng in an Alma Linux container. I got some encouraging feedback, so this week I experimented with syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE) in a RHEL UBI (Universal Base Image) container. While this is not officially…
Last December, I added support for EPEL 10 in my unofficial syslog-ng Git snapshot repository. This week, I call for testing the official syslog-ng EPEL 10 package.
Once I saw in my unofficial syslog-ng repo that syslog-ng compiles fine on EPEL 10, I…
Version 4.7.1 of syslog-ng OSE was released recently. It brings many smaller enhancements to metrics, OpenTelemetry and other features, while it also retires support for some older platforms.
The following three platforms…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 103rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 became generally available recently. Version 3.35 of syslog-ng has…
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 don…
Last week I posted about my new syslog-ng-stable RPM repositories. I tried to explain the use case and how it relates to my other repos, nonetheless I got some questions. So, in this blog I provide you an overview of syslog-ng RPM repositories: why to…
For many years – especially after syslog-ng changed to a rolling release model – users I talked to asked for up-to-date RPM packages. They also asked for a separate repository for each new release to avoid surprises (a new release might accidentally or…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 77th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Version 7 of the Elastic stack was released a few months ago, and brought…
As we learned in my previous blog, upgrading syslog-ng PE 6 to 7 is no more difficult than any major version upgrade. The key here is to use the latest version of PE 7 (at least version 7.0.17), as it has the necessary compatibility fixes to make the…
Version 8, a new major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was released this spring. Now that CentOS 8 is also available, there is a rapidly growing interest in syslog-ng running on these platforms. From this blog, you can learn about the availability…
Version 7 of the Elastic Stack, packed with new features and improved performance, has now been available for some time. Elasticsearch is not the only one to have come up with a major new version recently: starting with version 3.21, syslog-ng features…
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…
syslog-ng users often face the challenge of not being able to send logs over the network from one syslog-ng instance to another. There can be many reasons for this; some are independent from syslog-ng, while others are related to the syslog-ng configuration…
Version 6 of the Elastic Stack has now been available for some time packed with new features and improved performance. Compatibility of syslog-ng was checked already during the alpha phase of development, as syslog-ng is becoming popular among Elasticsearch…
After more than a year, the latest version of syslog-ng compiles again on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is thanks to a patch from Balázs Scheidler which resolves compatibility problems with older glib releases by implementing the missing…
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…
Last week, I described why and how to install the latest stable syslog-ng RPM packages. There are some situations, when even the latest stable release is not good enough. If you have any issues with the latest stable release, there is a good chance that…
The syslog-ng application is included in all major Linux distributions, and you can usually install syslog-ng from the official repositories. If the core functionality of syslog-ng meets your needs, use the package in your distribution repository (yum…
