Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 132nd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Installing nightly syslog-ng arm64 packages on a Raspberry Pi Last week, I posted about running nightly syslog-ng …

While most Java-based drivers have been deprecated in syslog-ng years ago, we have recently removed all of them in preparation to syslog-ng 4.9.0. Right now, the only Java-based driver remaining is HDFS, so we want to ask the syslog-ng community if t…

Last year, syslog-ng 4.8.0 improved the wildcard-file() source on FreeBSD and MacOS. Version 4.9.0 will do the same for Linux by using inotify for file and directory monitoring, resulting in faster performance while using significantly less resources…

One Identity Cloud PAM is one of the latest security products 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. Last year, I showed you how collec…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 131st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Introducing the develop branch of the syslog-ng git repo For many years, the development of syslog-ng happened on …

Last week, we released syslog-ng 4.8.2, containing a CVE fix along with improvements to the Elasticsearch and S3 destinations. As such, an upgrade is highly recommended. Version 4.8.3 does not bring any code changes, just a fix to the release process…

Finally, a new syslog-ng release! As you can see from its version number, this is a bug fix release. It took a bit longer than expected, as we wanted to release it in sync with syslog-ng PE, the commercial variant of syslog-ng. 4.8.2 serves not just …

While no dates are set to stone yet, we expect a couple of syslog-ng releases in the near future. As version 4.8.1 is used in major Linux distributions and has a couple of known bugs, we will release 4.8.2 to address those. However, we are also worki…

From my previous Active Roles blogs, you could learn how to forward regular Active Roles logs from Windows Event Log to a central syslog-ng server, where it parses, filters, stores and forwards the logs. In this blog, I show you how to work with Acti…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 130th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Testing Elasticsearch 9.0.0 beta1 with syslog-ng Each time a new major Elasticsearch version is released, someone …

Last week, I posted about running nightly syslog-ng container images on arm64. However, you can also install syslog-ng directly on the host (in my case, a Raspberry Pi 3), running the latest Raspberry OS. Before you begin Right now, syslog-ng nightly…

Recently we enabled nightly syslog-ng builds and container builds for arm64. It means that from now on, you can run the latest syslog-ng on 64bit ARM platforms. Before you begin For this test, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 running the latest Raspberry Pi O…