Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 41th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news. NEWS syslog-ng 3.7 beta1 released ---------------------------- In the first beta of syslog-ng OSE 3.7, the Java and Python destinations were migrated from the syslog-ng incubator to the syslog-ng core. Also, syslog-ng now includes an interactive syslog-ng.conf debugger. Read about known problems and how to get started at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2015/04/first-beta-of-syslog-ng-3-7-release... syslog-ng at RedHat Summit -------------------------- BalaBit is a general sponsor of the Red Hat Summit. The event will be in Boston, June 23-26. http://www.redhat.com/summit/ Visit the BalaBit booth to talk about syslog-ng and log management! syslog-ng Hadoop support ------------------------ With the release of syslog-ng PE 5F3, support for Hadoop arrived. It will also be part of the upcoming syslog-ng OSE 3.7 release. Read more about how syslog-ng can send logs to a HDFS destination: https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2015/04/08/sending-logs-to-hadoop-using-sysl... With this solution BalaBit became a certified MapR technology partner: https://www.mapr.com/partners/partner/balabit-it-security syslog-ng in Google Summer of Code 2015 --------------------------------------- This year we participate in GSoC again. The syslog-ng team received many good proposals, it will be a tough choice to decide on the finalists. We plan to have an IRC meeting with the participation of the winning GSoC students and members of the syslog-ng community. A separate e-mail will announce the exact time. The project and idea list is available at https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/wiki/GSoC2015-idea-&-project-list Forwarding name value pairs using RFC5424 ----------------------------------------- Recently many users asked how to forward the name of a file source over the network. It can easily be done using the RFC5424 syslog protocol. The same method can also be used to create and forward name value pairs between servers in general. Read more about it at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2015/03/using-rfc5424-syslog-to-forward-fil... syslog-ng @ LOADays 2015 ------------------------ This year syslog-ng was presented again at LOADays, a small but very exciting Linux admin conference in Antwerp. The basics of syslog-ng, the importance of name value pairs and the latest developments in syslog-ng were presented. For details, check: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2015/04/loadays-2015-logging-elasticsearch-... NEW RELEASES syslog-ng 3.7.0beta1: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.7.0beta1 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