[syslog-ng] The syslog-ng Insider 2024-08: 4.8.0 release; Prometheus; Amazon Linux

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

Dear syslog-ng users,

This is the 122nd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

NEWS

Version 4.8.0 of syslog-ng improves FreeBSD and MacOS support
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Recently One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its open-source log management application. Learn about some of the new features and bug fixes: why upgrade to the latest syslog-ng version, not only on FreeBSD :-)
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/version-4-8-0-of-syslog-ng-improves-freebsd-and-macos-support 

syslog-ng Prometheus exporter
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Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that collects metrics from your hosts and applications, allowing you to visualize and alert on them. The syslog-ng Prometheus exporter allows you to export syslog-ng statistics, so that Prometheus can collect it.
While an implementation in Go has been available for years on GitHub (for more information, see this blog entry), that solution uses the old syslog-ng statistics interface. And while that Go-based implementation still works, syslog-ng 4.1 introduced a new interface that provides not just more information than the previous statistics interface, but does so in a Prometheus-friendly format. The information available through the new interface has been growing ever since.
The syslog-ng Prometheus exporter is implemented in Python. It also uses the new statistics interface, making new fields automatically available when added.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/syslog-ng-prometheus-exporter 

Experimental syslog-ng packages for Amazon Linux 2023
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Last year, I received many requests about syslog-ng for Amazon Linux 2023, but I could not find an easy way to create syslog-ng packages. Recently, however, I found that Fedora Copr supports building packages for Amazon Linux 2023. So, with a little bit of experimentation, I got a cut down version of syslog-ng compiled.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/experimental-syslog-ng-packages-for-amazon-linux-2023 

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