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Nightly arm64 syslog-ng container builds are now available
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Recently we enabled nightly syslog-ng builds and container builds for arm64. It means that from now on, you can run the latest syslog-ng on 64bit ARM platforms. Before you begin For this test, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 running the latest Raspberry Pi O...
on Tue, 1PM
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Testing Elasticsearch 9.0.0 beta1 with syslog-ng
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Each time a new major Elasticsearch version is released, someone asks if it works with syslog-ng. So I gave it a quick test and based on that, it works fine. But of course, some terms and conditions apply… :-) Before you begin On the syslog-ng...
on Mar 13
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The syslog-ng Insider 2025-03: EPEL 10; Elasticsearch; Active Roles
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 129th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Test syslog-ng on EPEL 10! CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL 10 just became available, and as usual, I tried to build sy...
on Mar 12
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Working with parsed Active Roles logs in syslog-ng
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In my previous Active Roles blog, you learned how to forward Active Roles logs to a central syslog-ng server to parse and store the logs. In this blog, I’ll show you how to: - Work with parsed Active Roles logs. - Store logs to various document...
on Mar 5
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Collecting Active Roles logs centrally using the syslog-ng Windows Agent
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One Identity Active Roles allows you to easily and securely manage Active Directory (AD), Entra ID and M365 Identity objects. While Active Roles stores its log messages into Windows Event Log, most log management and log analytics applications expect...
on Feb 26
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The syslog-ng Insider 2025-02: Prometheus; RHEL UBI; WSL
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 128th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Syslog-ng Prometheus exporter added to RPM syslog-ng container image Recently I introduced you to my latest proj...
on Feb 19
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Running syslog-ng PE in RHEL UBI
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Recently I have posted a Dockerfile to run syslog-ng in an Alma Linux container. I got some encouraging feedback, so this week I experimented with syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE) in a RHEL UBI (Universal Base Image) container. While this is not offici...
on Jan 29
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syslog-ng OSE 4.8.1 is now in EPEL 10, quick fix for Elasticsearch
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This blog is just a quick announcement that syslog-ng 4.8.1 is now available in EPEL 10, so you do not have to use the testing repository anymore. Thanks everyone for the feedback! However, support for Elasticsearch 7+ is broken in this release, as s...
on Jan 21
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Syslog-ng is coming to EPEL 10
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Last December, I added <a href="/community/b/blog/posts/test-syslog-ng-on-epel-10">support for EPEL 10 in my unofficial syslog-ng Git snapshot repository</a>. This week, I call for testing the official syslog-ng EPEL 10 package. Once I saw in my unofficial syslog-ng repo that syslog-ng compiles...
on Jan 7
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<a href="https://www.centos.org/centos10/">CentOS Stream 10</a> and <a href="https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/epel-10-is-now-available/">EPEL 10</a> just became available, and as usual, I tried to build syslog-ng as soon as possible. For now it is available in <a...
on Dec 17
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Running a syslog-ng server in WSL
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows you to run Linux applications on a Windows host. While you can install and run syslog-ng on a default WSL installation, it is not really practical: there is no systemd and WSL is behind NAT. This blog gives yo...
on Dec 10
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-12: FreeBSD audit; 4.8.1; conferences
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 126th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng Two weeks ago, I was at EuroBSDcon and received a feature request for syslog-ng...
on Dec 5
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Syslog-ng Prometheus exporter added to RPM syslog-ng container image
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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...
on Nov 27
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Experimental syslog-ng container image based on Alma Linux
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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...
on Nov 20
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-11: testing; Quickwit; MacPorts
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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....
on Nov 14
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Call for testing: syslog-ng in openSUSE Leap 16.0
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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 ...
on Nov 7
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A syslog-ng container image based on Alpine Linux
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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....
on Oct 29
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Where should I present syslog-ng and sudo?
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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...
on Oct 24
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Version 4.8.1 of syslog-ng is now available
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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...
on Oct 18
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-10: 4.8.0 release; version number; Debian Stable
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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 ...
on Oct 10
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FreeBSD audit source for syslog-ng
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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 ...
on Oct 3
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Huge improvements for syslog-ng in MacPorts
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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...
on Sep 25
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Compiling syslog-ng git snapshots on FreeBSD
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The syslog-ng team publishes nightly syslog-ng git snapshot builds for <a href="/community/b/blog/posts/nightly-syslog-ng-builds-for-debian-and-ubuntu">Debian and Ubuntu</a>. I publish weekly <a href="/community/b/blog/posts/rpm-packages-from-syslog-ng-git-head/">snapshot builds for RPM</a>...
on Sep 20
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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 ...
on Sep 18
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-09: documentation; TRANSPORT macro; rolling RPMs
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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...
on Sep 11
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We are switching syslog-ng containers from Debian Testing to Stable
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For many years, the official syslog-ng container and development containers were based on Debian Testing. We are switching to Debian Stable now. Learn about the history and the reasons for the change now. Why Debian Testing? For many years, Debian Te...
on Sep 10
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Sending logs to Quickwit using the OpenTelemetry destination of syslog-ng
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Last time we looked at how syslog-ng can send logs to Quickwit using its Elasticsearch compatible API. This time we are going to look at how to use the OpenTelemetry protocol to send logs to Quickwit with syslog-ng. Before you begin On the syslog-ng ...
on Sep 3
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-08: 4.8.0 release; Prometheus; Amazon Linux
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 122nd 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 ...
on Aug 15
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Version 4.8.0 of syslog-ng improves FreeBSD and MacOS support
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Last week One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its open-source log management application. Learn about some of the new features and bug fixes: why upgrade to the latest syslog-ng version, not only on FreeBSD :-) Before you begin If you want to try ...
on Jul 31
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Why it is useful to set the version number in the syslog-ng configuration
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The syslog-ng configuration starts with a version number declaration. Up until recently, if it was missing, syslog-ng did not start. With syslog-ng 4.8, this is changing. From this blog, you can learn why version information is useful, what workaroun...
on Jul 23
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Rolling RPM platforms added to the syslog-ng package build system
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Syslog-ng uses a container-based system to generate the official source tgz and to build ready-to-use packages for various Linux distributions. Recently, we added support for some rolling RPM Linux distributions, allowing us to spot breaking changes ...
on Jul 17
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You can also contribute to the syslog-ng OSE documentation
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The up-to-date syslog-ng Administration Guide received a new look and easier navigation, as well as better search experience. Best of all, you can now also easily contribute to the syslog-ng documentation. The problem Up until recently, the syslog-ng...
on Jul 17
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-07: logging trends; multiple platforms; sudo; retired platforms
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 121st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Trends in open source logging Recently I was asked by Chas Clawson of Sumo Logic what I think about open source lo...
on Jul 11
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The $TRANSPORT macro of syslog-ng
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Do you want to know how your log messages arrived to syslog-ng? The new $TRANSPORT macro provides you with part of the answer. It shows you the protocol variant for network sources, or the kind of local source used. Before you begin You need a suffic...
on May 28
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<a href="https://prometheus.io/">Prometheus</a> is an open-source monitoring system that collects metrics from your hosts and applications, allowing you to visualize and alert on them. The syslog-ng Prometheus exporter allows you to export syslog-ng statistics, so that Prometheus can co...
on May 22
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Experimental syslog-ng packages for Amazon Linux 2023
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Last year, I received many requests about syslog-ng for Amazon Linux 2023, but I could not find an easy way to create syslog-ng packages. Recently, however, I found that Fedora Copr supports building packages for Amazon Linux 2023. So, with a little ...
on May 15
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-05: documentation; grouping-by(); PAM Essentials; health
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 120th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS The official syslog-ng OSE documentation got a new look The syslog-ng Administration Guide received a new look a...
on May 9
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syslog-ng OSE 4.7.1 retires some old platforms
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Version 4.7.1 of syslog-ng OSE was released recently. It brings many smaller enhancements to metrics, OpenTelemetry and other features, while it also retires support for some older platforms. Which platforms are affected? The following three platform...
on Apr 30
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Using syslog-ng on multiple platforms
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Your favorite Linux distribution is X. You test everything there. However, your colleagues use distro Y, and another team distro Z. Nightmares start here: the same commands install a different set of syslog-ng features, configuration defaults and use...
on Apr 24
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Working with sudo’s json_compact logs in syslog-ng
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Version 1.9.16 of sudo will feature a new option for logging: json_compact. Why is this important? This new format can easily be read and parsed by a log management software, like syslog-ng. Note that in this blog I am showing you a sudo feature whic...
on Apr 16
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Version 4.2 of syslog-ng introduced a healthcheck option to syslog-ng-ctl. It prints three syslog-ng-related metrics on screen – if it can reach syslog-ng, that is. You can use it from scripts to monitor the health of syslog-ng. Before you begi...
on Apr 2
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Alerting on One Identity Cloud PAM Essentials logs using syslog-ng
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One Identity Cloud PAM Essentials is the latest security product by One Identity. It provides asset management as well as secure and monitored remote access for One Identity Cloud users to hosts on their local network. I had a chance to test PAM Esse...
on Mar 27, 2024
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Collecting One Identity Cloud PAM Essentials logs using syslog-ng
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One Identity Cloud PAM Essentials is the latest security product by One Identity. It provides asset management as well as secure and monitored remote access for One Identity Cloud users to hosts on their local network. I had a chance to test PAM Esse...
on Mar 19, 2024
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The syslog-ng Insider 2024-03: MacOS; OpenTelemetry;
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 118th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Native MacOS source in syslog-ng You know that support for MacOS is important when every third visitor at the sysl...
on Mar 14, 2024
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Origin story We just realized that syslog-ng has a nice milestone as it reached the 3.14 version. I wanted to create something to celebrate it. There were a few ideas – still not forgotten, but in the end I though I do not want to extend syslog...
on Mar 14, 2024
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Aggregating messages in syslog-ng using grouping-by()
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Sometimes you have many log messages from an app, but none of them have the exact content you need. This is where the grouping-by() parser of syslog-ng can help. It allows you to aggregate information from multiple log messages into a single message....
on Mar 5, 2024
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Working with multi-line logs in syslog-ng
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Most log messages fit on a single line. However, Windows and some developer tools and services, like Tomcat, write multi-line log messages. These can come in various formats. For example, new log messages start with a date in a specific format. You u...
on Mar 2, 2024
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Dedicated Windows XML eventlog parser in syslog-ng
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Version 4.6 of syslog-ng introduced windows-eventlog-xml-parser(), a dedicated parser for XML-formatted event logs from Windows. It makes the EventData portion of log messages more useful, as it combines two arrays into a list of name-value pairs. Be...
on Feb 29, 2024
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General availability of Elasticsearch 8 was announced last week. There were quite a few rumors that it will break compatibility with third party tools. I tested it as soon as I had a little time: I am happy to share that anything I tested with the el...
on Feb 27, 2024