Scaling syslog to 1M EPS with eBPF
This article shows you how to parallelize syslog processing to reach message rates in the millions per second range. In our recent articles, we’ve discussed why organizations are still using UDP based transports for syslog and the message loss problem that inherently...
syslog-ng documentation and similarities with AxoSyslog Core
As you might know, I’m the original creator of syslog-ng, and after all those long years working on it (25 and still counting), I’m still passionate not only about syslog-ng but also logging and observability in general. For a long time, an important...
Syslog-ng disk buffering for a resilient syslog architecture
In syslog-ng, you can temporarily store log messages in a disk-buffer while a destination is unavailable. That way incoming messages are neither lost nor rejected, but put into the disk-buffer, and when the destination comes back up again, syslog-ng resumes sending...
