Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 141st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

Recently, I heard complaints within the syslog-ng community that using Elasticsearch is not that easy anymore.

Most of August, I was on vacation, but now I’m back and I try catching up on the events of the past weeks, just like my colleagues do.

For many years, I didn’t think that Tor could be useful for me.

Choose your poison: Up until version 4.12, when syslog-ng ran into an error jumping to a saved systemd journal position, it read the journal from the beginning.

Recently I was asked if syslog-ng supports Ubuntu 26.04 (Ubuntu Resolute).

For many years, syslog-ng used Java, where C libraries were unavailable.

Today, the syslog-ng team released three different syslog-ng versions, which provided a good opportunity to wear my “Release is coming” t-shirt.

OpenSSL 4.0 was released just over a month ago.

For many years, the syslog-ng project provided container images based on Debian.

How can you learn syslog-ng?

Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 140th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.

Fedora 44 was announced last week: syslog-ng 4.11 is part of it.

Although OpenSSL 4.0 released just two weeks ago, the syslog-ng project has already received a GitHub issue complaining that we do not support it.

On April’s fool’s day, I shared that syslog-ng can reach 7 million EPS.

This Monday I talked to a couple of friends about work while wearing my Genesi t-shirt.

Version 4.11.0 of syslog-ng contains contributions from Databricks related to OAuth2 authentication.

Almost 15 years ago, Balabit had a campaign, stating that syslog-ng could process 650k messages a second.

My AI mini workstation from HP has seen some non-AI workloads this weekend.

Once I got hardware-accelerated AI working under Linux on my AI mini workstation from HP, my next goal was to make it easier to use.