Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 141st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
NEWS
New performance tuning possibilities in syslog-ng
On April’s fool’s day, I shared that syslog-ng can reach 7 million EPS. This test lab result was in part possible thanks to a few performance enhancements coming to syslog-ng version 4.12.
How 7 million EPS is possible? Before diving deeper, let me repeat it: 7 million EPS is just a lab testing result, not (yet) possible in the real world. However, the technologies enabling this are already available on the development branch of syslog-ng, or
have been available for ages, just not tested or promoted enough.
Nightly syslog-ng containers based on Alma Linux
For many years, the syslog-ng project provided container images based on Debian. Most of our users run syslog-ng on RHEL & compatibles, and have asked for an RPM-based container. So, nightly containers based on Alma Linux are now also available.
A while ago, I prepared a small test project to run syslog-ng in an Alma Linux container: https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/experimental-syslog-ng-container-image-based-on-alma-linux However, that was only an experiment which I never updated.
Fast forward to today: nightly syslog-ng containers based on the latest syslog-ng git snapshot package builds are now available on the Docker Hub!
The status of OpenSSL 4.0 support in syslog-ng
OpenSSL 4.0 was released just over a month ago. So, how is its support progressing in syslog-ng? Well, Git master already supports it, and the patch is easy to backport to earlier releases. At the same time, version 4.12 will support OpenSSL 4.0 out of the
box.
Learning syslog-ng
How can you learn syslog-ng? There are many possibilities, depending on your time and budget. Possibilities range from tutorial series through reading the documentation to instructor-led training. Find out which one is for you!
WEBINARS