Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 47th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS 3.8 news: disk buffer, performance and more ------------------------------------------- While syslog-ng 3.8 is still in alpha phase, it already has a nice list of new features merged or waiting to be merged. It will feature disk based buffering, performance improvements, MongoDB support rewritten, and many more. Packages from git HEAD are planned to become available in the coming weeks and will be announced on the mailing list. For details, browse commit history or download sources from https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng The Hadoop (HDFS) destination ----------------------------- Petabytes of data are now collected into huge data lakes around the world. Hadoop is the technology enabling this. While syslog-ng was able write logs to Hadoop using some workarounds for quite some time, the new Java-based HDFS destination driver provides both better performance and more reliability. The syslog-ng HDFS driver is Hortonworks HDP certified. https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/02/filling-your-data-lake-with-log-mes... Rust: simple and efficient parsers ---------------------------------- If you want to create high quality, efficient parsers easily, writing them in Rust is worth considering. This post explaines the steps to use the experimental Rust language bindings for syslog-ng. There is even some sample code to help you get started on github. Read more at https://syslog-ng.org/syslog-ng-and-rust/ Scale 14x --------- Balabit, and thus syslog-ng participated the Southern California Linux Expo this year again. The most frequent topic at the booth was ESK (Elasticsearch syslog-ng Kibana). We had some very good discussions at the syslog-ng BoF and after my presentation about syslog-ng and Big Data: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/02/czp-scale-14x-esk-bof-drm/ 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