Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 48th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS Google Summer of Code (GSoC) ---------------------------- The syslog-ng project will participate GSoC this year again. We published our application form: https://syslog-ng.org/gsoc-2016-applicant-form-syslog-ng-project/ As you can see, we plan to publish a GsoC release once the coding period is over. Topics cover many different aspects of syslog-ng, from release engineering through database connections to message correlation. Disk-based buffering -------------------- Disk-based buffering is now merged to syslog-ng git master and will be part of syslog-ng 3.8. It can be used for storing messages on the local hard disk if the central log server or the network connection to the server becomes unavailable. The syslog-ng application automatically sends the stored messages to the server when the connection is reestablished. For details and information how to test it now read https://syslog-ng.org/493-2/ Rust: Filling the parse() method -------------------------------- Tibor Benke has posted an article about writing a parser that uses regular expressions in Rust. Read more at https://syslog-ng.org/filling-the-parse-method/ Parsers in syslog-ng: making sense of Zorp firewall logs -------------------------------------------------------- Figuring out how to parse your firewall logs is not always easy. This blogpost shows you some useful log-parsing techniques. For the examples, I use the logs of the Zorp proxy firewall. https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/03/making-sense-of-zorp-firewall-logs-... Community driven blogging -------------------------

From time to time, we publish blog posts about syslog-ng and we hope you find them interesting and useful. However, we would like to become better at this: we want to give you more and better content, more regularly. Also, we would like to be transparent about it, and give you the possibility to get involved.

Read how you can participate: https://syslog-ng.org/525-2/ DevConf.cz ---------- This year it was even more difficult to decide how to spend my time at DevConf, the annual Fedora, Red Hat, JBoss developers’ conference in Brno. As a community manager for syslog-ng, I have tried to focus on community-related presentations and on technologies related to syslog-ng: containers, security and packaging. https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/02/devconf-2016-community-and-containe... NEW RELEASES syslog-ng PE 5 F6: https://istvanszabo.blogs.balabit.com/2016/03/syslog-ng-premium-edition-5f6-... 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