syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.37 - Release Notes

Release Notes

syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.37

Release Notes

29 September 2022, 13:14

These release notes provide information about the syslog-ng Open Source Edition release. For the most recent documents and product information, see syslog-ng Open Source Edition - Technical Documentation.

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About this release

The syslog-ng Open Source Edition (syslog-ng OSE) application is a flexible and highly scalable system logging application that is ideal for creating centralized and trusted logging solutions.


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Supported platforms

The syslog-ng Open Source Edition (syslog-ng OSE) application is highly portable and is known to run on a wide range of hardware architectures (x86, x86_64, SUN Sparc, PowerPC 32 and 64, Alpha) and operating systems, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Cygwin, and others.


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New features in syslog-ng Open Source Edition version 3.37

New features in syslog-ng Open Source Edition version 3.37

This section lists the most recent changes of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (syslog-ng OSE).

  • New source: mqtt()

    You can use the mqtt() source to fetch messages from MQTT brokers.

  • New destination: discord()

    The discord() destination driver sends messages to Discord using Discord Webhook.

  • New parser: fortigate-parser()

    The Fortigate parser can parse the log messages of FortiGate/FortiOS (Fortigate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)). These messages do not completely comply with the syslog RFCs, making them difficult to parse. The fortigate-parser() of syslog-ng OSE solves this problem, and can separate these log messages to name-value pairs. For details on using value-pairs in syslog-ng OSE see Structuring macros, metadata, and other value-pairs. The parser can parse messages in the following format:

  • New parser: regexp-parser()

    The syslog-ng OSE application can parse fields from a message with the help of regular expressions. This can be also achieved with the match() filter, by setting the store-matches flag, but the regexp-parser() offers more flexibility, like multiple patterns and setting the prefix of the created name-value pairs.

  • New filter: rate-limit()

    Limits messages rate based on arbitrary keys in each message.

  • New options for the kafka() destination C implementation

    Options batch-lines() and batch-timeout() have been added.

  • New options for the kafka() destination C implementation

    Options batch-lines() and batch-timeout() have been added.

  • New option value: transport("text-with-nuls")

    text-with-nuls: Allows embedded NUL characters in the message from a TCP source, that is, syslog-ng OSE will not delimiter the incoming messages on NUL characters, only on newline characters (contrary to tcp transport, which splits the incoming log on newline characters and NUL characters).

  • New option for file() destination: symlink-as()

    The configured file name will be used as a symbolic link to the last created file by file destination.

  • New options for redis() destination driver

    Added workers() and Match mode support to the Redis destination driver.

  • New --remove-orphans option in syslog-ng-ctl stats

    New option --remove-orphans has been added to the stats command.

  • New options for the mongodb() destination

    Options collection() and workers() have been added.

  • disk-buffer() has been updated

    New option: truncate-size-ratio(), and other changes.

  • time-reopen() option on multiple drivers

    The time-reopen() option was only configurable on the global options{} level. Now every driver, which utilizes it can configure it on the driver level.

  • New flag(): no-rfc3164-fallback

    This flag allows to attempt parsing RFC5424 first without an automatic fallback to RFC3164.

  • New TLS option: keylog-file()

    This option enables saving TLS secrets (decryption keys) for a given source or destination, which can be used to decrypt data with, for example, Wireshark. The given path and name of a file will be used to save these secrets.

  • Other enhancements

    • Monitoring - Metrics: message size and EPS.

    • Update the no-parse flag.

    • Added a note to the disk-buffer() dir() path.

    • Added macOS and NetBSD to the system() source.


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