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syslog-ng Open Source Edition Administration Guides
Introduction to syslog-ng
The concepts of syslog-ng
Installing syslog-ng
Quick-start guide
The configuration file
Sources
Destinations
Log - Filter and route log messages
Global options of syslog-ng OSE
- Global options
TLS-encrypted message transfer
Template and rewrite
Parse and segment structured messages
Correlating log messages
Enriching log messages with external data
- Adding metadata from an external file
- Looking up GeoIP2 data from IP addresses
Statistics of syslog-ng
- Metrics and counters of syslog-ng OSE
- Log statistics from the internal() source
Multithreading and scaling
Troubleshooting syslog-ng
Best practices and examples
The syslog-ng OSE manual pages
About us

Supported platforms

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The syslog-ng OSE application is highly portable and is known to run on a wide range of hardware architectures (x86, x86_64, SUN Sparc, PowerPC 32 and 64, Alpha, ARM64) and operating systems, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, macOS, Cygwin, and others.

The source code of syslog-ng Open Source Edition is released under the GPLv2 license
For the available binary installation packages, see syslog-ng Open Source Edition installation packages.

Updated: June 29, 2024

Who uses syslog-ng OSE?

The concepts of syslog-ng

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