Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 38th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng 3.6.1 released ------------------------ We are proud to announce that culminating almost a year’s worth of development, syslog-ng 3.6.1 has been released! This is the first stable release from the 3.6 branch, the successor to 3.5, which was originally released in November, 2013. Read more about the highlights of this release at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2014/10/syslog-ng-3-6-1-is-released/ or all the technical details at https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.6.1 Sending JSON formatted messages with syslog-ng ---------------------------------------------- The use of name-value pairs greatly enhances the usability of collected logs. There are many ways in syslog-ng to turn log messages into name-value pairs: parsers. From this post you can learn how to parse log messages using syslog-ng and send the resulting name-value pairs in JSON format to Loggly. Read our guest blog at https://www.loggly.com/blog/sending-json-format-logs-syslog-ng/ This article focuses on JSON and Loggly, but once your logs are parsed, name-value pairs can also be sent to Graphite, Riemann, Redis, AMQP, MongoDB, and so on. SSB 4LTS is released -------------------- One of the products building on the foundations of the open source syslog-ng is SSB (syslog-ng Store Box). It provides a complete log management solution with a web interface based on syslog-ng. The new long term support release comes with many new features and performance improvements. Read more at https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2014/10/30/syslog-ng-store-box-4lts-released... TLS encryption and mutual authentication ---------------------------------------- Configuring TLS encryption and mutual authentication can be a challenging job as it needs both strong OpenSSL and syslog-ng skills. This tutorial provides step by step instructions about the necessary steps: creating certificates using OpenSSL and configuring syslog-ng to use them. The tutorial was originally published on linux.com: http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/129-servers/790912-tls-encryption-and-m... and now also available on balabit.com at http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.6-guide... syslog-ng PE 5F2 released ------------------------- The second feature release of syslog-ng PE is released. The primary focus is data privacy: anonymization and pseudonymization of incoming log messages. Other features include journal support, SMTP destination. Read more about it at https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2014/10/28/introducing-syslog-ng-premium-edi... 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 IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik