One Identity Active Roles allows you to easily and securely manage Active Directory (AD), Entra ID and M365 Identity objects. While Active Roles stores its log messages into Windows Event Log, most log management and log analytics applications expect…
Most log messages fit on a single line. However, Windows and some developer tools and services, like Tomcat, write multi-line log messages. These can come in various formats. For example, new log messages start with a date in a specific format. You use…
Version 4.6 of syslog-ng introduced windows-eventlog-xml-parser(), a dedicated parser for XML-formatted event logs from Windows. It makes the EventData portion of log messages more useful, as it combines two arrays into a list of name-value pairs.
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 90th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Talking to syslog-ng users, I found that many of them…
Talking to users at both IT security and operations related conferences, they confessed the same: the less software the better. Less software to learn, maintain and follow in bug trackers. The Windows Event Collector (WEC) component of syslog-ng Premium…
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…
Normally I cover free and open-source software in the syslog-ng blog. But recently quite a few members of the community reached out to me and asked about collecting logs from Windows. So, I prepared a quick overview of the topic. The good news is, that…
With the release of syslog-ng Premium Edition 7.0.6, you can collect Windows event logs without installing any third party application on your Windows-based computer.
The benefits are obvious:
