Last week I introduced you to my latest project: a syslog-ng container based on Alma Linux. This week I added a syslog-ng Prometheus exporter to the container, so you can also monitor syslog-ng, if you enable it. Before you begin The syslog-ng Promet…

The official syslog-ng container image is based on Debian Stable. However, we’ve been getting requests for an RPM-based image for many years. So, I made an initial version available based on Alma Linux and now I need your feedback about it! Thi...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 125th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS A call for syslog-ng testing After the last syslog-ng release, we started a campaign to close open issues on GitHub.…

Last week, I submitted syslog-ng to openSUSE Leap 16.0. While the distro is still in a pre-alpha stage, everything already works for me as expected. Well, except for syslog-ng, where I found a number of smaller problems. As such, this blog is a call …

Recently, someone suggested I should check out Alpine Linux and prepare a syslog-ng container image based on it. While not supported by the syslog-ng project, an Alpine-based syslog-ng container image already exist as part of the Linuxserver project.…

Recently I was asked the same question both at my workplace and at EuroBSDCon, the conference where I was presenting: where do you talk next? I had no definite answer. Of course, I am looking forward to the FOSDEM CfP, but I am also looking for new c…

Version 4.8.1 was released recently. As you could guess from the version number change, it is primarily a bug fix release, but some minor features also slipped in. From this blog, you can learn what changed in syslog-ng 4.8.1 and where you can get it…

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 124th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Version 4.8.0 of syslog-ng improves FreeBSD and MacOS support Recently One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its …

Two weeks ago, I was at EuroBSDcon and received a feature request for syslog-ng. The user wanted to collect FreeBSD audit logs together with other logs using syslog-ng. Writing a native driver in C is time consuming. However, creating an integration …

Last week I wrote about a campaign that we started to resolve issues on GitHub. Some of the fixes are coming from our enthusiastic community. Thanks to this, there is a new syslog-ng-devel port in MacPorts, where you can enable almost all syslog-ng f…

After the last syslog-ng release, we started a campaign to close open issues on GitHub. We'd like to continue this effort and call for collaboration from our users and contributors to make OSE even more stable. While unit tests are great (and we ...

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 123rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS You can also contribute to the syslog-ng OSE documentation The up-to-date syslog-ng Administration Guide received a…