Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 142nd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Syslog-ng Java destination disabled For many years, syslog-ng used Java, where C libraries were unavailable. Howev…

Does syslog-ng support the latest OpenSearch version? I suspected that the answer was yes, but I gave it a try anyway. And as expected, starting to use OpenSearch 3.9 with syslog-ng is a smooth experience. My only problem? Finding a password complex …

Two years ago, I created a syslog-ng repo for Amazon Linux 2023. As I received zero feedback, I left it alone until last week. The repo is now updated to the latest version of syslog-ng: 4.12. According to Fedora Copr download stats, my Amazon Linux …

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 141st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS New performance tuning possibilities in syslog-ng On April’s fool’s day, I shared that syslog-ng can r...

Recently, I heard complaints within the syslog-ng community that using Elasticsearch is not that easy anymore. I installed Elasticsearch 9.5 with Kibana to verify these claims. Before you begin For my tests, I installed Elasticsearch 9.5, Kibana 9.5 …

Most of August, I was on vacation, but now I’m back and I try catching up on the events of the past weeks, just like my colleagues do. Currently, we are fixing issues and reviewing contributions, but we also discussed scaling back our efforts o...

For many years, I didn’t think that Tor could be useful for me. However, I’ve recently found a Gist on GitHub that describes how you can use it to harden your central syslog-ng server. And while I have yet to try it, at least now I have a...

Up until version 4.12, when syslog-ng ran into an error jumping to a saved systemd journal position, it read the journal from the beginning. With the latest syslog-ng version, you can configure what happens in case of such an error. Before you begin …

Recently I was asked if syslog-ng supports Ubuntu 26.04 (Ubuntu Resolute). Yes, and with the arrival of the syslog-ng 4.12.0 release we also provide ready-to-use packages for it. The release notes mention it, and info is in the Readme on GitHub. I te…

For many years, syslog-ng used Java, where C libraries were unavailable. However, over the years native C libraries became available for Elasticsearch and Kafka, and HDFS practically disappeared. As a “scream test”, I am going to disable ...

OpenSSL 4.0 was released just over a month ago. So, how is its support progressing in syslog-ng? Well, Git master already supports it, and the patch is easy to backport to earlier releases. At the same time, version 4.12 will support OpenSSL 4.0 out …

For many years, the syslog-ng project provided container images based on Debian. Most of our users run syslog-ng on RHEL & compatibles, and have asked for an RPM-based container. So, nightly containers based on Alma Linux are now also available. ...