[syslog-ng] Insider 2022-01: Reboot; Sequence; Monterey; CentOS 9;

Thu Feb 10 08:38:20 UTC 2022

Dear syslog-ng users,

This is the 98th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

NEWS

syslog-ng relaunch
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Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, started a new blog where he details why and how he started to work on syslog-ng even more actively. He also asks for your feedback!
“syslog-ng has been around for decades: I started coding the first version of syslog-ng in September 1998, circa 24 years ago. The adoption of syslog-ng skyrocketed soon after that: people installed it in place of the traditional syslogd across the globe. It was packaged for Debian, Gentoo, SUSE and even commercial UNIXes. It became a default logging daemon in some of these Linux distributions. Commercial products started embedding it as a system component. Over the years however I feel that syslog-ng has become a trusted piece of infrastructure, few people really care about. I set out to change that.”
Read the rest of the blog at https://syslog-ng-future.blog/syslog-ng-relaunch/

Sequence – making PatternDB creation for syslog-ng easier
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We are well into the 21st century, but most of the log messages still arrive in an unstructured format. For well over a decade, syslog-ng had a solution to turn unstructured messages into name-value pairs, called PatternDB. However, creating a pattern database for PatternDB from scratch is a source of major pain. Or rather, it was: sequence-rtg – a fork of the sequence log analyzer – provides a new hope! It can easily create ready-to-use patterns for your most frequent log messages.
Sequence-rtg is still in beta phase, and therefore is a bit rough around the edges. However, once you deal with the initial struggles of creating the database, it works just fine. Especially if you have lots of log messages. My experience was that the more log messages and larger batch sizes I had, the better quality patterns were generated.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/sequence-making-patterndb-creation-for-syslog-ng-easier

Syslog-ng on MacOS Monterey
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Each new MacOS release brings some surprises when it comes to compiling syslog-ng. Just a couple of months ago, I provided you with a couple of pointers on how to compile syslog-ng on MacOS. Since then, MacOS Monterey was released and Homebrew was updated. So, here are some updated instructions for MacOS Monterey.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/syslog-ng-on-macos-monterey 

Installing syslog-ng on CentOS Stream 9
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CentOS Stream 9 has been around for a while, but it was officially announced just a few days ago. I already tested some earlier snapshots and they had some rough edges. The current version installed without random crashes, has networking and runs smoothly. EPEL – the semi-official repository by Fedora maintainers – is already there, but practically empty, syslog-ng or it’s dependencies are not yet there. As someone asked about syslog-ng support, I had a first try at building it.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/installing-syslog-ng-on-centos-stream-9

WEBINARS

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Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at oneidentity.com>
Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
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