My original blog about getting started with syslog-ng on FreeBSD became outdated. The content was updated and extended a bit, and with some help from the FreeBSD community, it is now available on the FreeBSD wiki at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/sys…

Last week I posted about my new syslog-ng-stable RPM repositories. I tried to explain the use case and how it relates to my other repos, nonetheless I got some questions. So, in this blog I provide you an overview of syslog-ng RPM repositories: why t…

For many years – especially after syslog-ng changed to a rolling release model – users I talked to asked for up-to-date RPM packages. They also asked for a separate repository for each new release to avoid surprises (a new release might a...

Bastille is a container management system for FreeBSD. If you are coming from a Linux world, it is a bit like Docker or Podman / Buildah from Red Hat, at least some of its functionality. I learned about BastilleBSD right before my Christmas holidays.…

I define syslog-ng, as an “Enhanced logging daemon with a focus on portability and high-performance central log collection”. One of the original goals of syslog-ng was portability: running the same application on a wide variety of archite...

Mac support is a returning question among syslog-ng users, especially when I talk to users in the US. For recent releases, each commit is automatically tested on macOS, on the other hand there is not much information available on Mac support. Recentl…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 77th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Set up Kibana 7 for syslog-ng & GeoIP Version 7 of the Elastic stack was released a few months ago, and brought...

As we learned in my previous blog, upgrading syslog-ng PE 6 to 7 is no more difficult than any major version upgrade. The key here is to use the latest version of PE 7 (at least version 7.0.17), as it has the necessary compatibility fixes to make the…

Version 8, a new major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux was released this spring. Now that CentOS 8 is also available, there is a rapidly growing interest in syslog-ng running on these platforms. From this blog, you can learn about the availabilit…

A question I often receive is ‘what are the differences between rsyslog and syslog-ng?’ It’s a little tricky to answer. First, because my experience is mostly with syslog-ng, and because there are many similarities between the two p...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 76th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Logging to Elasticsearch made simple with syslog-ng Elasticsearch is gaining momentum as the ultimate destination for…

Learn the major steps necessary to upgrade your system from syslog-ng Premium Edition version 6 to 7. As you will see, it is no more difficult than any other major software version upgrade, and after the upgrade you can start using all the new and us…