Usually we do not publish a “Getting Started Guide” for new syslog-ng releases, as executing the “apt-get upgrade & apt-get update” commands or adding a new repo and running “yum update” is usually enough. With...
syslog-ng 3.7.1 is now also available for RHEL6
As still many of you are using RHEL/CentOS version 6, we created a syslog-ng 3.6.1 package for this aging (at least from a developers point of view) operating system. As for any syslog-ng OSE packages, …
For most of its history, syslog-ng could only be used for collecting, processing and storing log messages. Not any more. The Redis and Riemann destinations are already a step into the direction of metrics-based monitorin...
RHEL 7 was released over a month ago and CentOS 7 not much later, but one piece of software was still missing: syslog-ng. Not any more. EPEL, which stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, is a software collection containing additional package…
Loggly released the second generation of their Logging as a Service (LaaS) recently. As a technology enthusiast, and someone who already liked the first generation of their LaaS, I could not resist trying it.
Basic message forwarding from s...
Even if the overwhelming majority of syslog users still uses the old RFC3164 syslog protocol, there are some people who use RFC5424. This RFC only describes the protocol but not the actual transport. The next two RFCs after RFC5424 des...
People who know that I’m working on a logging software (syslog-ng) often ask me, why logging is so important? Obviously many of these people only use desktop machines and learn about logging only when their root partition fills up because /var/…
Last week I learned, that using Cacti‘s syslog plugin with syslog-ng is not fully documented. While I’m not a Cacti user, I’m always in search of web interfaces to be used with syslog-ng. So I wanted to give Cacti and...
Recently more and more people want to use syslog-ng with database support enabled on CentOS 5, RHEL5 & Co. The syslog-ng package in EPEL does not support it, as libdbi there is too old. But compiling your own database enabled ...
Enterprise log search and archive (ELSA) is a brand new centralized syslog framework with syslog-ng 3.1+ and patterndb at its heart. It is the first larger project outside of BalaBit utilizing the power of patterndb. Data storage and searching is bas…
The EPEL project (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives with additional high quality packages. Syslog-ng was available for EPEL5 for a long time and is now also added to EPEL6, which provides packages …
