Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 49th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS syslog-ng in the BMW i3 ----------------------- The BMW i3 electric car uses many open source software under the hood. BMW respects the GPL and made the source code of software used available upon request. You can find syslog-ng among them: https://github.com/edent/BMW-OpenSource Google Summer of Code (GSoC) ---------------------------- The syslog-ng project will participate in GSoC this year again, this time with five students. We are looking for Feature Owners who could represent syslog-ng users in the process. Topics range from websockets through CLI to Java-based Kafka source. Read more about the topics and learn how to contact the team at https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2016-April/022862.html syslog-ng is Hortonworks Data Platform certified ------------------------------------------------ Both syslog-ng OSE and PE provide a Hadoop destination and are now Hortonworks Data Platform certified. You can read more about why use syslog-ng in a Hadoop environment at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/02/filling-your-data-lake-with-log-mes... or on the Hortonworks website at http://hortonworks.com/partner/balabit/ The grouping-by() parser ------------------------ Until recently, you could only correlate and aggregate information from multiple messages with the PatternDB parser. The new grouping-by() parser in the upcoming syslog-ng version 3.8 can correlate and aggregate information independently from PatternDB, using data from any of the available parsers (CSV, key=value, PatternDB, JSON): https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/04/the-grouping_by-parser-in-syslog-ng... Optimize your SIEM ------------------ Join us on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at 2:00 PM EST to hear about the benefits of front-ending your SIEM with syslog-ng. Benefits include: increased performance, higher quality data, and cost-effective scalability. Register for the live webinar at https://pages2.balabit.com/optimize-siem/ Troubleshooting Java support ---------------------------- Java based destination drivers were introduced to syslog-ng last year. The syslog-ng application uses libjvm.so to embed a Java Virtual Machine inside syslog-ng. Learn which Java to use and how to make sure, that it is found by syslog-ng: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/03/troubleshooting-java-support-in-sys... Cybersecurity Excellence award for SSB -------------------------------------- Balabit has been named the winner of the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Forensics for syslog-ng Store Box (SSB). Based on syslog-ng – one of the most widely adopted log management software packages – SSB is a highly reliable and high-performance log management appliance which collects, classifies, organizes, and securely stores log messages for any enterprise who operates a log management infrastructure. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/balabits-syslog-ng-store-box-earns-... Packaging Rust parsers ---------------------- Up until now, if you wanted to try the new Rust-based parsing in syslog-ng, you also had to build syslog-ng yourself from source code. Not anymore, if you use one of the RPM-based Linux distributions: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2016/04/syslog-ng-3-8-preview-parsers-in-ru... 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