Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 37th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. FEATURED NEWS Beta testing of syslog-ng 3.6 started ------------------------------------- Beta testing period of syslog-ng 3.6 started two weeks ago with a beta1 release. It was quickly followed by a beta2 release, fixing mostly portability. Some of the new features are coming from the syslog-ng incubator, like Riemann support or the graphite template function. The journal source and many enhancements to existing features are coming from the syslog-ng PE team. Also, the @cim prefix can be used as a local "rich" log transport on /dev/log, and messages will be parsed by the JSON parser if available. Beta2 is already available in the FreeBSD ports in sysutils/syslog-ng-devel. For RPM distributions, check https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2014/09/journal-source-in-syslog-ng-3-6-bet... BalaBit syslog-ng team takes over the syslog-ng OSE development --------------------------------------------------------------- algernon, the full-time syslog-ng OSE developer at BalaBit decided to look for new challenges. First of all, thank you very much for all your hard work, bugfixes nifty new features, and everything else you did for syslog-ng OSE! We all wish you the best, and hope you'll have a great time outside BalaBit as well :) To keep the development, maintenance, and releases of syslog-ng OSE on track, the developer team of syslog-ng Premium Edition will take over the tasks related to syslog-ng OSE: they will manage bugfixes, patches, pull requests, and also the general development of syslog-ng OSE. Naturally, this does not affect the current or future openness of syslog-ng OSE in any way: Your contribution is as welcome as ever. For more details about this change, see algernon's blog post at http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2014/09/15/looking-ahead/ eCSI training ------------- BalaBit provides now a free training, which provides a fresh insight on logmanagement. The first level introduces the listener to compliance, planning an infrastructure and logs in forensics situations. Once your knowledge is tested, you can go to the next level and learn about IT security and eCSI: http://www.balabit.com/lp/ecsi-training-camp syslog-ng, riemann, collectd-notifications, elasticsearch --------------------------------------------------------- How to build an event-based infrastructure to push structured messages to different subsystems for alerting, reporting and storage. Using syslog-ng, each message is normalized into a structured event, optionally correlated with other messages, and conditionally routed to systems. Read more at: http://devops.com/features/guide-modern-monitoring-alerting/ Data Privacy, Anonymization and Log Data ---------------------------------------- Strong data privacy laws are arriving slowly but surely in Europe, which also affects logging. Raw data contains too much information, on the other hand anonymized data does not have enough information to handle a security incident. Read about a possible solution and how syslog-ng can help at https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2014/09/10/data-privacy-anonymization-and-lo... Google Summer of Code: success ------------------------------ Google Summer of Code ended a few weeks ago. All of our students successfully completed their projects. We would like to thank for the hard work of students and their mentors, and Google for the opportunity! You can read more about the completed projects at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/syslog_ng NEW RELEASES syslog-ng OSE 3.6 beta2: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-September/000197.... syslog-ng PE 5LTS (5.0.6a): https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-September/000196.... 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