Creating highly available servers is difficult. Sending logs to two (or more) servers and hoping that at least one of them can collect logs any time is a lot easier. Since network traffic and storage are cheap, redundancy is usually not a problem. However…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 86th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
The first Logging as a Service (LaaS) I learned about many years ago was created…
Event logging is a central source of information both for IT security and operations, but different teams use different tools to collect and analyze log messages. The same log message is often collected by multiple applications. Having each team using…
UNITE is the partner and user conference of One Identity, the company behind syslog-ng. This time the conference took place in Phoenix, Arizona where I talked to a number of American business customers and partners about syslog-ng. They were really enthusiastic…
One of the main advantages of syslog-ng is that it is high performance and low on resource usage. Why throttle the messages then? There are three main reasons – licensing, performance, and bandwidth – all outside of syslog-ng. From this blog, you can…
Do you want to simplify parsing your log messages? Try the new “application adapter” and “enterprise-wide message model” frameworks in syslog-ng: you can automatically parse log messages and forward the results to another syslog-ng instance. Optionally…
With the increased reliance on analytics to drive security operations, IT security professionals are paying particular attention to one of the oldest tools in their toolbox, log management. A recently released report…
A couple weeks ago our CTO, Balázs Scheidler reflected on the importance of central log management, an approach that we have been advocating for a long time and was also underpinned by a recent report by Gartner.
Having spent the past week at the…
Centralized log management certainly is a great solution when you are trying to tackle issues related to handling huge amounts of logs. With the right tool, it can be also beneficial on collection and search performance – areas that syslog-ng Store Box…
