syslog-ng 3.0 released

Version 3.0 of syslog-ng Open Source Edition has been released

After the release of its commercial version last fall, syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.0 is finally
available. 

The syslog-ng Open Source Edition application is a mature, stable system logging application that
has become the most common alternative logging server of the Linux/Unix world. The syslog-ng
application is the default logging solution of the SUSE distributions, and is estimated to be used
by tens of thousands of organizations on hundreds of thousands of computers.

Version 3.0 contains several new features that strengthen the range of syslog-ng's functionalities.
Among this is the support for the new syslog standard protocol and message format developed by the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The application is most suitable for filtering and
segmenting the incoming log messages based on their  parameters and content. The new version can
even separate the content of the messages to name-value pairs, and use these as macros, making it
easy to process structured messages. It is also possible to rewrite and modify the messages when
needed.

The syslog-ng application can directly send the log messages to SQL databases and log analyzing
applications. Currently the MySQL, Microsoft SQL (MSSQL), Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases
are supported.

The syslog-ng application is the ideal choice to collect logs in environments that use several
different operating systems and hardware platforms, including Linux, Unix, BSD, Sun Solaris, HP-UX,
and IBM AIX. The syslog-ng application is optimized for performance, and can handle enormous amount
of messages. It can process up to 75,000 messages per second real-time, that is, over 24 GB raw
logs per hour on entry-level server hardware.

The application can operate in server and client mode as well, and - apart from UDP - natively
supports the reliable TCP and the encrypted TLS protocols.

The free syslog-ng Open Source Edition has extraordinary capabilities, surpassed only by the
commercial syslog-ng Premium Edition that features of buffering the messages on the hard disk,
storing messages in encrypted log files, reading messages from arbitrary files, and support for
Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Further information: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/
Download: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensou...


Version 3.0 of syslog-ng Open Source Edition has been released

The new version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition, the popular syslog alternative for centralized
logging brings several useful features for the open source world, including support for the new
syslog protocol and message-format standard developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF); native support for TLS-encrypted message transfer, including mutual authentication, and the
ability to directly log messages into SQL databases. The message processing capabilities of
syslog-ng have also been improved: it is possible to segment the content of the messages into
name-value pairs and use the results in further processing steps such as filtering; and rules can
be defined to rewrite or modify the messages if needed. 
The syslog-ng application is optimized for performance, and can handle enormous amount of messages:
up to 75,000 messages per second real-time, that is, over 24 GB raw logs per hour on entry-level
server hardware.

Further information: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/
Download: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensou...