Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 13th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> FEATURED NEWS Have you tried to add custom information to log messages, fix mis-formatted logs or anonymize logs? --------------------------------- The next long-time-supported release of SSB version 3 LTS is about to be released. This release includes a switch to 64-bit architecture, a huge performance improvement in the indexing/searching feature for a large number of message and search patterns and a couple of new features, too. The following post plans to introduce those new features to you. The updated User’s Manual will contain a detailed description of them — this post is written more to serve as teaser and to highlight some of the use cases we had in mind when we’d planned the features, and, of course, to ask for your feedback about them. http://gyp.blogs.balabit.com/2012/03/new-features-in-ssb-3-lts-rewriting-par... Admin guide: http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/ssb-3.0-guides/ssb-v3.0... syslog-ng participates in GSoC ------------------------------ This year syslog-ng participates in GSoC under the umbrella of openSUSE. We have one student accepted, who will work on syslog-ng’s mongodb destination. The story of BalaBit's GSoC participation: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/04/syslog-ng-on-gsoc-thanks-opensuse/ What the student will do: http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2012/05/in-the-land-of-open-source-the-fre... MongoDB howto ------------- One of the major reasons to update to 3.3 other than threading is MongoDB. It allows great flexibility when using patterns and storing parsed data from logs. The syslog-ng documentation covers most information necessary to use MongoDB, but this HowTo compiles all these into a single document and extends it with features from the upcoming syslog-ng 3.4 version. http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2012/04/26/mongodb-howto/ OTHER SHORT NEWS * There is now an open source LogStore reader work in progress: https://github.com/algernon/balabit.logstore * syslog-ng 3.4 alpha packages are now available in the FreeBSD ports and also for openSUSE: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... * syslog-ng and ELSA were presented at LOADays: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/04/syslog-ng-at-linux-open-administrati... NEW RELEASES: * syslog-ng OSE 3.3.5: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-May/000142.html * syslog-ng OSE 3.4 alpha2: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-May/000143.html * libumberlog 0.2.1: http://algernon.github.com/libumberlog/ ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP)<czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/