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From syslog-ng to LogScale: structured logs from any source
Send structured log messages from syslog-ng to Falcon LogScale via its Ingest Structured Data API, and other destinations in parallel.
syslog-ng and AxoSyslog documentation updates 2023-08
Documentation updates for AxoSyslog, the cloud-native syslog-ng distribution: OpenTelemetry support, Splunk HEC destination, eBPF support, and new parsers
OpenTelemetry support in more detail in AxoSyslog and syslog-ng
Receive or send any kinds of OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics with syslog-ng and AxoSyslog 4.3 using OTLP/gRPC
Scaling syslog to 1M EPS with eBPF
How to parallelize syslog message processing to scale syslog over UDP reception on a single node: dos, dont’s, and trade-offs, and the power of eBPF.
OpenTelemetry support in AxoSyslog and syslog-ng
Receive or send any kinds of OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics with syslog-ng and AxoSyslog 4.3 using OTLP/gRPC
syslog-ng documentation and similarities with AxoSyslog Core
Republishing syslog-ng documentation in a new format, under the AxoSyslog Core name to comply with the syslog-ng Open Source Edition documentation license
Declarative control plane not just for Kubernetes projects
How do you observe and manage geographically distributed observability pipelines built from thousands of active components that deliver observability data?
Syslog-ng disk buffering for a resilient syslog architecture
syslog-ng disk buffering benefits, and how to configure it to prevent data loss from local and upstream failure modes like crashes, network outages, overloads.
AxoSyslog Observability in Kubernetes
Get more insights about your logs in Kubernetes using AxoSyslog. Monitor and visualize the metrics of your AxoSyslog Kubernetes deployments.
AxoSyslog and syslog-ng 4.2.0 release
syslog-ng 4.2 comes with new drivers and lots of new metrics to help you manage your cloud-native and on-premise observability supply chain.
AxoSyslog – Log Collection for Kubernetes
Install syslog-ng using the AxoSyslog Helm charts to send Kubernetes logs into OpenSearch. AxoSyslog is a cloud native syslog-ng distribution by Axoflow.
syslog over UDP: how to avoid losing messages
Using syslog over UDP can lead to significant message loss. Here’s how you can tune the kernel and syslog-ng parameters to minimize the risk of losing messages
Why syslog over UDP loses messages and how to avoid that
Users report that syslog over UDP loses 30-40% of their messages.
Learn why messages are dropped and how you can solve or at least mitigate the problems.
Exploring the Exciting New Features of syslog-ng 4.1
Version 4.1 with its new metrics system brings syslog-ng closer to the cloud-native ecosystem and the modern observability supply chain.
Cloud-Ready syslog-ng Images
Axoflow is happy to announce that our flavored syslog-ng container images are available for download.