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What’s new in AxoSyslog versions 4.18–4.22: FilterX enhancements, improved ClickHouse and S3 outputs, OTLP keep-alive support, and smarter worker autoscaling for high-performance log pipelines.

Learn how to secure syslog pipelines with encryption, authentication, access controls, and hardening best practices. Understand common threats and compliance considerations.

Learn how syslog scales in high-volume environments. Explore performance bottlenecks, buffering, backpressure, batching, and architectural patterns for reliable log ingestion.

Learn how syslog is used in practice across operating systems, network devices, applications, and security platforms. Explore common integrations with SIEMs and observability tools.

Explore common syslog deployment models, including local, centralized, distributed, and high-availability setups. Learn how syslog scales from single hosts to SIEM-backed enterprise pipelines.

Learn how syslog works, including message format, severity levels, facilities, transport protocols (UDP, TCP, TLS), and reliability mechanisms like buffering and queuing.

Learn what syslog is, how it works, and why it remains the backbone of modern logging. Explore use cases, benefits, and limitations in this beginner-friendly guide.

The starting point of our comprehensive syslog guide, that starts from the basics and covers every aspect of syslog collection, transport, and scaling

Discover what’s new in AxoSyslog 4.13–4.17, from advanced log formatting and smarter parsing to cloud integration and performance tuning. Build faster, more reliable log pipelines with the latest features.

Send syslog data to Grafana Loki from AxoSyslog, a binary-compatible syslog-ng™ replacement that enables direct log forwarding, dynamic metadata labeling, and efficient log routing