Release Date: 2018-04-11 Build-IDs: Service 5.0.0.185, Client 5.0.0.263 Features File Monitor: Added new options “Process rest of file as one message” and Read Filebuffer size for better regex message separator handling. Syslog Action: Added support for multiple syslog servers (Load balancing) Syslog Action: Backup Syslog Server is now tried on connect as well. Before, the […]
RSyslog Windows Agent 4.2 Released
Adiscon is proud to announce the 4.2 release of MonitorWare Agent. Besides some bugfixes (See Version History for details) a few new features have been added to this minor release. Most important is the ability to use regular expressions as compare operation when filtering properties. Properties can also be converted into IPv4 or IPv6 Addresses […]
RSyslog Windows Agent 3.3 Released
Adiscon is proud to announce the 3.3 release of RSyslog Windows Agent. This is a bugfixing release with minor feature update. Most importantly, the Adiscon SNMP MIB now supports messages sizes up to 64k (previous limit was 255 characters). The OpenSSL Library has been updated to 1.0.2h. Bugs were fixed primarily in RELP and syslog […]
Using rsyslog to Reindex/Migrate Elasticsearch data
Original post: Scalable and Flexible Elasticsearch Reindexing via rsyslog by @Sematext This recipe is useful in a two scenarios: migrating data from one Elasticsearch cluster to another (e.g. when you’re upgrading from Elasticsearch 1.x to 2.x or later) reindexing data from one index to another in a cluster pre 2.3. For clusters on version 2.3 […]
RSyslog Windows Agent 3.2 Released
Adiscon is proud to announce the 3.2 release of RSyslog Windows Agent. This is a maintenenance release for RSyslog Windows Agent, which includes Features and bugfixes. There is a huge list of changes, but the most important is the enhanced support for file based configurations. Also inbuild components like OpenSSL and NetSNMP have been updated […]
Connecting with Logstash via Apache Kafka
Original post: Recipe: rsyslog + Kafka + Logstash by @Sematext This recipe is similar to the previous rsyslog + Redis + Logstash one, except that we’ll use Kafka as a central buffer and connecting point instead of Redis. You’ll have more of the same advantages: rsyslog is light and crazy-fast, including when you want it […]
Recipe: Apache Logs + rsyslog (parsing) + Elasticsearch
Original post: Recipe: Apache Logs + rsyslog (parsing) + Elasticsearch by @Sematext This recipe is about tailing Apache HTTPD logs with rsyslog, parsing them into structured JSON documents, and forwarding them to Elasticsearch (or a log analytics SaaS, like Logsene, which exposes the Elasticsearch API). Having them indexed in a structured way will allow you […]
Coupling with Logstash via Redis
Original post: Recipe: rsyslog + Redis + Logstash by @Sematext OK, so you want to hook up rsyslog with Logstash. If you don’t remember why you want that, let me give you a few hints: Logstash can do lots of things, it’s easy to set up but tends to be too heavy to put on […]
RSyslog Windows Agent 3.1 Released
Adiscon is proud to announce the 3.1 release of RSyslog Windows Agent. This is a maintenenance release for RSyslog Windows Agent. It includes some bugfixes as well as a new rule date condition which can be used to process events starting from a certain date. A few new options have been added into the Syslog […]
Rsyslog Windows Agent Released
The rsyslog Windows agent enables customers to integrate Windows Event Logs into their central rsyslog-based logging system. Even more, it supports acting as a syslog relay as well. This enables small branch offices only runnig Windows to provide local syslog sources to the central server as well. We have released the first full-featured version of […]