There is something to be said for making it easy to use syslog-ng with the major players and right now that is splunk. I would hasten to add keeping json actively used and the native elasticsearch destination current also makes it easy to position syslog-ng as a standard collection and distribution layer.  Within 2 to 3 years something will leapfrog splunk and if syslog-ng is ready, it will make that transition much easier. Jim Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: "Scheidler, Balázs" <balazs.scheidler@balabit.com> Date: 6/12/16 5:44 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Is there a standard for naming tag/value pairs when parsing Well, CEE is pretty much dead, and I didn't see too much activity wrt lumberjack either. I would rather see consolidation instead of further fragmentation in this area. Cheers Bazsi You are the last person I thought would point me toward the splunk CIM. Given the support that Balabit has put behind CEE and then lumberjack and even the experimental patternDB schema (https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-patterndb/blob/master/SCHEMAS.txt) I was sure you would steer me toward lumberjack. At first glance the splunk CIM appears to be structured around and partially dependant on some of the data flows of the splunk product. I'll continue to review it but at this point I am still open to alternate suggestions. Evan. On 06/11/2016 11:45 AM, Scheidler, Balázs wrote: There's common information model at splunk or the field dictionary of CEF, of arcsight fame. I would probably use the splunk one, except if you plan to use arcsight at the end. On Jun 11, 2016 18:32, "Evan Rempel" <erempel@uvic.ca> wrote: There was a project by Mitre (https://www.mitre.org/) called the Common Event Expression (https://cee.mitre.org/) that was going to be the official standard for metadata names for events, but that project has been stopped. Other than the two references that the CEE project has for logging standardization efforts, does anyone know of any major efforts by any group to define a standard for metadata naming? Evan. ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq