Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 39th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng incubator 0.4.1 released ------------------------ We are proud to announce that version 0.4.1 of syslog-ng incubator is released. It is compatible with syslog-ng version 3.6. Some features previously included in the incubator such as Riemann and Graphite support have been ported to syslog-ng. It also adds many interesting new features: kafka and java destination support, ZMQ source and destination and a grok parser. Ports and packages are available for Fedora, FreeBSD and openSUSE, but with some of the features missing, as dependencies are not yet available packaged. For details, read https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2014/12/syslog-ng-incubator-0-4-1-released/ Data Privacy, Anonymization and Log Data ---------------------------------------- Data privacy is becoming a hot topic, especially in the European Union. New features in syslog-ng can be used to become compliant with regulations. Read about encrypting, anonymizing logs and pseudonymization at https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2014/12/08/data-privacy-anonymization-and-lo... The trinity of monitoring: syslog-ng, Riemann and Elasticsearch -------------------------------------------------------------- BalaBit organizes OpenAcademy in Budapest, Hungary, as a way of continuous learning. Last time we had a guest, Fabien Wernli (on IRC better known as faxmodem), who talked about how syslog-ng can be integrated with Riemann and Elasticsearch. The video starts in Hungarian, but the presentation is in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4uzJm5VLh4 NEW RELEASES syslog-ng 3.6.2: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.6.2 syslog-ng incubator 0.4.0 & 0.4.1: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator/releases Happy Holidays! 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