The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) appliance is built upon syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. There are multiple ways how users can authenticate…

The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) appliance is built on syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. One of the typical use cases for SSB (and syslog-ng…

The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) is an appliance built on syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. One of these features is the SQL source. Many applications…

It is easy to over-complicate log management. Almost all departments in a company need to log messages for their daily activities. However, installing several different log management and analysis systems in parallel is a nightmare both from a security…

Dear syslog-ng users,

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

NEWS

syslog-ng 3.35.1 available

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

• APT repo for x86 Debian…

One of the most popular applications to feed Splunk with syslog messages is syslog-ng. However not everyone is happy to work on the command line anymore. This is where syslog-ng store box (SSB), an appliance built around syslog-ng, can help. The SSB GUI…

With its latest 4 F6 feature release, you can deploy syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a bring-your-own license. Running SSB in AWS brings you the obvious benefits of running an application in the cloud, the most notable of these…

This is the 2020 edition of my most read blog entry about syslog-ng web-based graphical user interfaces (web GUIs). Many things have changed in the past few years. In 2011, only a single logging as a service solution was available, while nowadays, I regularly…

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…