One of the most popular syslog-ng destinations is Elasticsearch. Humio, a log management provider, supports a broad range of ingest options and interfaces, including an Elasticsearch-compatible API. Last week, Humio announced Humio Community Edition,…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 95th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Elasticsearch 7.14 and OpenSearch 1.0 are available – and work fine with syslog-ng One of the most popular des...

Panther is an open-source log management system, which is also available as a service for a time-limited trial. It is still in beta phase, but it looks promising. You can see the “beta” sign on its opening page: https://app.panther.suppor…

One of the returning questions I get at conferences in the US is if and how syslog-ng works on MacOS. Thanks to Yash Mathne, who worked on syslog-ng as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student this year, we have a much more precise answer now. To sum i…

Version 3.33 of syslog-ng arrived with basic MQTT support. Version 3.34 has added many important features to it: user authentication, TLS support and WebSocket support. These features give you both security and flexibility while sending log messages …

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 94th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 3.34.1 available Version 3.34.1 of syslog-ng has been released with many interesting new features. There is …

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 93rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Sending alerts to Discord and others from syslog-ng using Apprise: blocks and Python templates From this blog, you …

For the past couple of months, Yash Mathne has been working on testing syslog-ng on MacOS as a GSoC (Google Summer of Code) student. He worked both on x86 and on the freshly released ARM hardware. And we have some good news here to share: while there…

Process accounting logs are collected into binary log files on Linux. You can turn them into human readable format locally, using various tools. You can also use syslog-ng to read those files. Syslog-ng can parse those binary logs, create name-value …

One of the most popular destinations in syslog-ng is Elasticsearch. Due to the license change of the Elastic stack, some people changed quickly to Grafana/Loki and other technologies. However, most syslog-ng users decided to wait and see. Versio...

UDP-based log collection is so last century. We had TCP-based log collection for decades and TLS encryption to secure connections. Still, UDP is in wide use, especially at large companies and industrial automation, where every change is slow. In most…

Version 3.33 of syslog-ng introduced an MQTT destination. It uses the paho-c client library to send log messages to an MQTT broker. The current implementation supports version 3.1 and 3.1.1 of the protocol over non-encrypted connections, but this is …