The role of Central Log Management With the increased reliance on analytics to drive security operations, IT security professionals are paying particular attention to one of the oldest tools in their toolbox, log management. A recently released repor…

I spent the weekend at Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, or as it is better known: FOSDEM – as I did in the past several years as well. This time I delivered two presentations on syslog-ng, and as usual, I spent ...

syslog-ng users often face the challenge of not being able to send logs over the network from one syslog-ng instance to another. There can be many reasons for this; some are independent from syslog-ng, while others are related to the syslog-ng config…

Last week,  news came out that unprotected MongoDB databases are being actively compromised: content copied and replaced by a message asking for a ransom to get it back. As The Register reports: Elasticsearch is next. Learn how syslog-ng can hel...

Last week, I described why and how to install the latest stable syslog-ng RPM packages. There are some situations, when even the latest stable release is not good enough. If you have any issues with the latest stable release, there is a good chance t…

Today we’re announcing syslog-ng Premium Edition 7, our latest stable release for syslog-ng PE. This release is primarily for customers using syslog-ng PE as a log collection and log routing tool front-ending SIEM solutions and big data de...

With its latest 4 F6 feature release, you can deploy syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a bring-your-own license. Running SSB in AWS brings you the obvious benefits of running an application in the cloud, the most notab...

Last week after publishing my Elasticsearch 5 blog, I finally had a little time to take a look at the logs coming from my Turris Omnia router. It is running in a quiet neighborhood of Budapest, but looking at my logs it shows that I’m living in...

The second half of November brought us two exciting new Linux distribution releases: openSUSE Leap 42.2 and Fedora 25. While both of them are based on the RPM packaging format and cover everything from embedded through desktops to servers, there are …

Last week I visited All Things Open, one of the largest open source conferences of the US East Coast. The venue was the monumental building of the Raleigh Convention Center, just two blocks from Red Hat’s headquarters. I was presenting&nbs...

Even if I do not maintain a cluster of FreeBSD servers with thousands of jails anymore, my favorite server operating system is still FreeBSD. I started using it at version 2.X well over twenty years ago. Yesterday, FreeBSD 11.0 was released. For...

Log messages already contain a wealth of information about what is happening in your systems. Still, logs can be enriched with additional information – like the geo-location belonging to an IP address – which can improve the usability of ...