Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 89th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
There is no official Kafka source in syslog-ng, but because this question comes up…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 88th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Until now collecting logs behind proxies or load balancers needed…
There is no official Kafka source in syslog-ng, but because this question comes up often enough, I created one. It is just a temporary workaround using the program() source, but it works. It involves Java and installing Kafka manually, but it was fast…
The C implementation of the Kafka destination in syslog-ng has been improved in version 3.30. Support for templates in topic names was added as a result of a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. The advantage of the new template support feature is that…
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…
In our previous post, we discussed the performance of syslog-ng, streaming logs to HDFS destinations. Now we’ll pick up where we left off, and continue our performance evaluation with the Kafka.
In our Kafka tests, we used syslog-ng Premium Edit…
