Blog
Stay in the loop: Updates, Innovations, and Community Insights
Featured Articles


Beyond Cutting Cost: Why Data Quality Makes Security Pipelines Strategic
Anton Chuvakin and Tim Peacock interview Balázs Scheidler (Axoflow CEO and syslog-ng founder) about the industry’s move from centralization to data access. They discuss why poor data quality weakens SIEM value, how modern pipelines normalize and enrich data so it is ready for immediate use, and meet data quality requirements.


Axoflow’s Storage Strategy: Building the Security Data Layer
Discover Axoflow’s storage solutions for the Security Data Layer. From edge storage and cost-efficient data lakes to stream processing and air-gapped deployments, learn how Axoflow powers scalable, flexible, and reliable security data pipelines.


Splunk .conf25 - The Role of the Pipeline
Splunk .conf2025 experiences, and the increasing importance of the security data pipeline
All Articles


Metrics for syslog-ng based log management infrastructures
Metrics and management for syslog-ng based enterprise logging and telemetry pipelines


Ingesting Large-volume Data Stream to the Cloud
The problems of the syslog protocol and how the OpenTelemetry protocol and AxoSyslog ensures seamless and structured data transport across your network.


OpenTelemetry Collector Under the Hood: Backpressure
What happens to your data when a receiver endpoint of the OpenTelemetry Controller becomes unavailable? Read about different scenarios and mitigation options.


Log Isolation on Shared Kubernetes Infrastructure
How to solve hard and soft multi-tenancy scenarios in Kubernetes using the Logging operator and the Telemetry controller


Reinvent Kubernetes Logging with Telemetry Controller
The Telemetry Controller turns telemetry event streams - logs, metrics, and traces - into Kubernetes resources. It provides a multi-tenant API on top of OpenTelemetry for isolation and access control for telemetry data.


Send logs to OpenObserve, the free Elasticsearch alternative
Forward your Kubernetes logs to OpenObserve with syslog-ng and the Logging operator using AxoSyslog, the cloud-native syslog-ng distribution


How to detect TCP and UDP packet drops in syslog and telemetry pipelines
Packet drops and buffering in syslog and observability pipelines


Enhance macOS logging with syslog-ng’s native macOS system() source
Collect logs from the native macOS OSlog or log stream with syslog-ng's new darwin-os sources!


Google BigQuery, macOS, and Windows XML support in syslog-ng version 4.6
syslog-ng 4.6 allows you to send data directly to Google BigQuery, better collect logs on macOS, parse Windows XML logs, and improves OpenTelemetry performance
Subscribe to stay in touch
Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to knew about new articles. We are excited to be realizing our vision above with a full Axoflow product suite.

