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AxoSyslog: the syslog-ng™ fork built by its original developers. Get secure, supported, binary-compatible log management with advanced observability, daily vulnerability scans, and enterprise-ready features.

Receive or send any kinds of OpenTelemetry logs, traces, and metrics with syslog-ng and AxoSyslog 4.3 using OTLP/gRPC

Learn how to monitor your syslog-ng™ or AxoSyslog deployment by exporting metrics into Prometheus using axosyslog-metrics-exporter. Boost observability and diagnose issues quickly.

AxoSyslog, our syslog-ng™ fork, simplifies its licensing by adopting a single, clear open source license: GNU General Public License version 3 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later)

How to send logs to a ClickHouse SQL database using AxoSyslog, a syslog-ng replacement

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

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.

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

AxoSyslog 4.9 highlights: ClickHouse destination, gRPC improvements, new FilterX features, and bug fixes for the AxoSyslog and the syslog-ng projects.

Activity report of the first six months of AxoSyslog, the binary-compatible syslog-ng fork.

Forward your Kubernetes logs to Grafana Loki with syslog-ng and the Logging operator using AxoSyslog, the cloud-native syslog-ng distribution

syslog-ng 4.4 comes with new drivers and lots of new metrics to help you manage your cloud-native and on-premise observability supply chain.

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.

Activity report of the first year of AxoSyslog, our drop-in syslog-ng fork.

How to upgrade your syslog-ng installation to AxoSyslog in minutes, without any configuration changes