Hi, For the last six months, Elastic’s communication centered around the upcoming Elastic Stack 5.0. And finally it is here: tons of new features, improved performance and a single version number for all Elastic products. Compatibility with syslog-ng was checked already during the alpha phase of development, as syslog-ng is becoming popular among Elasticsearch users: it can greatly simplify logging to Elasticsearch <https://www.balabit.com/blog/logging-to-elasticsearch-made-simple-with-syslog-ng/> . As Elastic Stack 5.0.0 is now generally available, here is a quick how-to guide to get you started with syslog-ng 3.8.1 and Elasticsearch 5.0.0 on RHEL/CentOS 7: https://www.balabit.com/blog/syslog-ng-and-elasticsearch-5-getting-started-o... Bye, Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik