[syslog-ng] insider 2014-12: incubator 0.4.1 released; anonymization; monitoring;

[Czanik, Péter]

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

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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

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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-log-data-part-2/


The trinity of monitoring: syslog-ng, Riemann and Elasticsearch

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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!


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Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik