[syslog-ng] insider 2014-11: 3.6.1 released; JSON; SSB 4LTS; TLS mutual auth; PE 5F2;

[Czanik, Péter]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 38th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter
that brings you syslog-ng-related news.


FEATURED NEWS


syslog-ng 3.6.1 released

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We are proud to announce that culminating almost a year’s worth of
development, syslog-ng 3.6.1 has been released! This is the first
stable release from the 3.6 branch, the successor to 3.5, which was
originally released in November, 2013.

Read more about the highlights of this release at
https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2014/10/syslog-ng-3-6-1-is-released/
or all the technical details at
https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.6.1


Sending JSON formatted messages with syslog-ng

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The use of name-value pairs greatly enhances the usability of
collected logs. There are many ways in syslog-ng to turn log messages
into name-value pairs: parsers. From this post you can learn how to
parse log messages using syslog-ng and send the resulting name-value
pairs in JSON format to Loggly. Read our guest blog at
https://www.loggly.com/blog/sending-json-format-logs-syslog-ng/

This article focuses on JSON and Loggly, but once your logs are
parsed, name-value pairs can also be sent to Graphite, Riemann, Redis,
AMQP, MongoDB, and so on.


SSB 4LTS is released

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One of the products building on the foundations of the open source
syslog-ng is SSB (syslog-ng Store Box). It provides a complete log
management solution with a web interface based on syslog-ng. The new
long term support release comes with many new features and performance
improvements.

Read more at https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2014/10/30/syslog-ng-store-box-4lts-released/

TLS encryption and mutual authentication

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Configuring TLS encryption and mutual authentication can be a
challenging job as it needs both strong OpenSSL and syslog-ng skills.
This tutorial provides step by step instructions about the necessary
steps: creating certificates using OpenSSL and configuring syslog-ng
to use them. The tutorial was originally published on linux.com:
http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/129-servers/790912-tls-encryption-and-mutual-authentication-using-syslog-ng-open-source-edition
and now also available on balabit.com at
http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.6-guides/en/syslog-ng-tutorial-mutual-auth-tls/html-single/index.html


syslog-ng PE 5F2 released

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The second feature release of syslog-ng PE is released. The primary
focus is data privacy: anonymization and pseudonymization of incoming
log messages. Other features include journal support, SMTP
destination. Read more about it at
https://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2014/10/28/introducing-syslog-ng-premium-edition-5f2/


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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