The blank() filter is a filter function with a descriptive name: it selects empty or undefined name-value pairs. While most of the functionalities that blank filter provides are available long time ago, using this new filter makes configurations easi…

The syslog-ng stats-exporter() allows you to collect syslog-ng statistics using Prometheus. Version 4.10 of syslog-ng added options to ensure that all related options of syslog-ng-ctl are now available in stats-exporter() too. Before you begin The st…

I’ve been providing syslog-ng users release RPM packages for almost a decade now. However, from now on, RHEL & Co users can use packages provided directly by the syslog-ng team from a lot less obscure location. Before you begin As you might...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 135th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS The core values of syslog-ng Whenever I present syslog-ng at a conference or I stand next to a booth, people often…

Version 4.10 of syslog-ng introduced file size-based log rotation. Thanks to this, storage space is no longer filled with logs with the risk that you might not see older logs if the message rate is higher than expected. Before you begin You need at l…

Support for IBM’s AIX operating system has been available in syslog-ng for almost two decades. First in open source, then also in syslog-ng Premium Edition. Recently, IBM added syslog-ng to the AIX ToolBox for Open Source Software. AIX ToolBox ...

I have been providing syslog-ng users with weekly git snapshot RPM packages for almost a decade. From now on, RHEL & Co users can use nightly packages provided by the syslog-ng team, and from a lot less obscure location. As usual, these packages ...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 134th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Syslog-ng development and AI Recently, several people have asked me about the syslog-ng project’s view on AI...

The syslog-ng team made nightly builds available for Debian and Ubuntu running on the AMD64 architecture. These packages are not intended to be used in production, they are only for testing fixes and new features. Before you begin Normally, I list he…

As a follow-up to my RPM blog, here are instructions installing syslog-ng Open Source Edition (syslog-ng OSE) on the Debian / Ubuntu version. If you read my previous blog, skip to the installation part at the end, otherwise: read on. The syslog-ng …

Version 4.9.0 of syslog-ng has been available for some time. However, it is not available yet in FreeBSD ports, as there were compilation problems on FreeBSD 15-CURRENT. You can still install it using my own updated ports Makefile. I maintain my own …

Whenever I present syslog-ng at a conference or I stand next to a booth, people often ask me why should they use syslog-ng instead of one of its competitors. So let me summarize what the users and developers of syslog-ng typically consider as its mos…