[syslog-ng] insider 2015-04: 3.7 beta1; RedHat Summit; Hadoop; GSoC; RFC5424;

[Czanik, Péter]

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

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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-released-with-java-and-python-support-interactive-configuration-debugger/



syslog-ng at RedHat Summit

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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

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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-syslog-ng/

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

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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

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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-file-names/

syslog-ng @ LOADays 2015

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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-home-automation-and-other-sysadmin-topics/


NEW RELEASES

syslog-ng 3.7.0beta1:
https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.7.0beta1


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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