One Identity Cloud PAM Essentials is the latest security product by One Identity. It provides asset management as well as secure and monitored remote access for One Identity Cloud users to hosts on their local network. I had a chance to test PAM Essentials…
Many users are annoyed by the version number included in the syslog-ng configuration. However, it ensures backward compatibility in syslog-ng. It is especially useful when updating to syslog-ng 4 from version 3, but also when updating within the same…
One of the returning questions I received recently: why contribute to the syslog-ng upstream? I guess it is a question many open-source projects receive regularly. There are many generic answers. Here I would like to focus more on syslog-ng, focusing…
Version 4.0 of syslog-ng is right around the corner. It hasn’tyet been released; however, you can already try some of its features. The largest and most interesting change is type support. Right now, name-value pairs within syslog-ng are represented as…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 98th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, started a new blog where he details why and…
We are well into the 21st century, but most of the log messages still arrive in an unstructured format. For well over a decade, syslog-ng had a solution to turn unstructured messages into name-value pairs, called PatternDB. However, creating a pattern…
Recently I gave a syslog-ng introductory workshop at Pass the SALT conference in Lille, France. I got a lot of positive feedback, so I decided to turn all that feedback into a blog post. Naturally, I shortened and simplified it, but still managed to get…
The release candidate of version 3.7 of Turris OS – the OpenWRT-based operating system of Turris Omnia routers – is now available. Among many other changes, this updates syslog-ng from version 3.0 to 3.9, so it adds about seven years’ worth…
For the last six months, Elastic’s communication centered around the upcoming Elastic Stack 5.0. And finally it is here: tons of new features, improved performance and a single version number for all Elastic products. Compatibility with syslog-ng was…
Performance of syslog-ng on the original Raspberry Pi was not outstanding, the peak I could reach was at about 6500 messages per second, as I wrote it in my blog in 2013.
So I was curious, how the Raspberry Pi 2, with a four-core ARMv7 CPU and double…
Last week I visited All Things Open, one of the largest open source conferences of the US East Coast. The venue was the monumental building of the Raleigh Convention Center, just two blocks from Red Hat’s headquarters. I was presenting syslog-ng in…
Figuring out how to parse your firewall logs is not always easy. This blogpost shows you some useful log-parsing techniques. For the examples, I use the logs of the Zorp proxy firewall, developed now by Balasys, the Hungarian distributor of Balabit products…
Loggly released the second generation of their Logging as a Service (LaaS) recently. As a technology enthusiast, and someone who already liked the first generation of their LaaS, I could not resist trying it.
Basic message forwarding from syslog-ng on Linux…
Elasticsearch is gaining momentum as the ultimate destination for log messages. There are two major reasons for this:
You can store arbitrary name-value pairs coming from structured logging or message parsing.
You can use Kibana as a search and visualization…
Petabytes of data are now collected into huge data lakes around the world. Hadoop is the technology enabling this. While syslog-ng was able write logs to Hadoop using some workarounds (mounting HDFS through FUSE) for quite some time, the new Java-based…
It is the third year that syslog-ng has participated at Southern California Linux Expo or, as better known to many, SCALE ‒ the largest Linux event in the USA. In many ways it is similar to FOSDEM in Europe, however, SCALE also focuses on users and administrators…
