Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 46th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS syslog-ng web GUIs ------------------ The number and importance of logging solutions with a web interface is growing, luckily many of these are syslog-ng based. Using the Elasticsearch destination, Kibana provides an easy-to-use web interface for log messages. Read more about feeding log messages to Elasticsearch with syslog-ng with at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2015/12/web-interfaces-for-your-syslog-serv... Southern California Linux Expo ------------------------------ Next week, Peter Czanik will present “syslog-ng: from raw data to Big Data” at the Southern California Linux Expo. There will be also a booth (#426) where you can talk about syslog-ng, and we also plan a syslog-ng BoF where you can share your experiences or ask your questions about syslog-ng. https://www.balabit.com/scale-trade-show-meeting Google Summer of Code --------------------- In the past four years syslog-ng participated in Google Summer of Code, where talented students spent their summers coding syslog-ng instead doing some less intellectually challenging summer jobs. Some of their results include the Redis destination or configuration management modules. Read more about our experiences and the upcoming “syslog-ng Universe” at https://syslog-ng.org/gsoc-2015-summary/ syslog-ng on the Raspberry Pi 2 ------------------------------- The performance of syslog-ng on the original Raspberry Pi was not that great. A quick test of the Raspberry Pi 2 revealed, that performance increased drastically, now you can use this $35 machine as a central log server: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/01/syslog-ng-on-the-raspberry-pi-2/ syslog-ng Store Box 4F3 released -------------------------------- The latest version of syslog-ng Store Box (SSB), a turnkey appliance built around syslog-ng has been released. You can now search across multiple logspaces and across multiple SSB boxes from one search interface, while maintaining user profile-based access control. Read the full announcement at https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2015/12/15/syslog-ng-store-box-4-f3-released... Monitoring serial consoles -------------------------- The January issue of the Linux Journal contains an article from Fabien Wernli about using syslog-ng to monitor serial consoles. This month it is only available for subscribers: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/january-2016-issue-linux-journal NEW RELEASES SSB 4 F3: https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2015/12/15/syslog-ng-store-box-4-f3-released... Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com . To read this newsletter on-line, visit: http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik