Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 100th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
syslog-ng 4 theme: typing
Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, describes a major new syslog-ng version 4.0 feature: typing.
“syslog-ng traditionally assumes that log data, even if it comes in a structured form (like RFC5424 structured data or JSON) is primarily textual in nature. For this reason, name-value pairs in syslog-ng are text values just as the log message as a whole.”
Read the rest of the blog to learn how typing helps not just when forwarding logs to Elasticsearch and others, but also when doing routing decisions: https://syslog-ng-future.blog/syslog-ng-4-theme-typing/
Working with JSON logs from sudo in syslog-ng
From this blog you will learn how to work with JSON formatted logs in syslog-ng and also about new sudo features along the way: JSON logging in sudo, chroot support, logging sub-commands, and how to work with these logs in syslog-ng.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/working-with-json-logs-from-sudo-in-syslog-ng
Elasticsearch 8 and syslog-ng
General availability of Elasticsearch 8 was announced recently. There were quite a few rumors that it will break compatibility with third party tools. I tested it as soon as I had a little time: I am happy to share that anything I tested with the elasticsearch-http() destination of syslog-ng still seems to work perfectly well with the latest version of Elasticsearch.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/elasticsearch-8-and-syslog-ng
Contacting the syslog-ng team: reporting problems, asking questions
Recently I got some complaints that it is difficult to figure out how to contact the syslog-ng team to get help or report problems. Most of this information is available both on the syslog-ng website and at the syslog-ng repository on GitHub, but collecting here all information might be still useful for some people.
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