History of Compare syslog software

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  Alexis on Nov. 17^th 2020 12:08:52 AMReport

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  Compare syslog software: rsyslog vs syslog-ng

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  miceno on Mar. 20^th 2013 5:56:58 PMReport

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  Link, Last update, Website, license, Input Sources, UNIX domain socket, UDP, TCP, RELP, RFC 3195/BEEP, kernel log, file, mark message generator as an optional input, Standard output (stdout) of an application, Named pipe, Handle multi-line messages like Apache Tomcat or Oracle log messages, Windows Event Log, Network (Protocol) Support, support for (plain) tcp based syslog, support for GSS-API, ability to limit the allowed network senders (syslog ACLs), support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp connections, udp syslog, syslog over RELP, truly reliable message delivery (Why is plain tcp syslog not reliable?), on the wire (zlib) message compression, support for receiving messages via reliable RFC 3195 delivery, support for TLS/SSL-protected syslog, support for IETF's new syslog-protocol draft, support for IETF's new syslog-transport-tls draft, support for IPv6, native ability to send SNMP traps, ability to preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains, Message Filtering, Filtering for syslog facility and priority, Filtering for hostname, Filtering for application, Filtering for message contents, Filtering for sending IP address, ability to filter on any other message field not mentioned above (including substrings and the like), support for complex filters, using full boolean algebra with and/or/not operators and parenthesis, Support for reusable filters: specify a filter once and use it in multiple selector lines no, support for arbritrary complex arithmetic and string expressions inside filters, ability to use regular expressions in filters, support for discarding messages based on filters, ability to filter out messages based on sequence of appearing, powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support, Supported Database Outputs, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, Microsoft SQL (Open TDS), Sybase (Open TDS), Firebird/Interbase, Ingres, mSQL, Enterprise Features, support for on-demand on-disk spooling of messages, ability to limit disk space used by spool files, each action can use its own, independant set of spool files, different sets of spool files can be placed on different disk, ability to process spooled messages only during a configured timeframe (e.g. only during off-peak hours, during peak hours they are enqueued only), ability to configure backup syslog/database servers, Professional Support, Config File, config file format, ability to include config file from within other config files, ability to include all config files existing in a specific directory, Extensibility, Functionality split in separately loadable modules, Support for third-party input plugins, Support for third-party output plugins, Other Features, ability to generate file names and directories (log targets) dynamically, control of log output format, including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data, native ability to send mail messages, good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339 second-resolution UTC zone, ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings, support for log files larger than 2gb, support for log file size limitation and automatic rollover command execution, support for running multiple syslogd instances on a single machine, ability to execute shell scripts on received messages, ability to pipe messages to a continously running program, massively multi-threaded for tomorrow's multi-core machines, ability to control repeated line reduction ("last message repeated n times") on a per selector-line basis, supports multiple actions per selector/filter condition, web interface, using text files as input source, rate-limiting output actions, discard low-priority messages under system stress, flow control (slow down message reception when system is busy), rewriting messages, output data into various formats, ability to control "message repeated n times" generation, supported platforms Linux, BSD, anecdotical seen on Solaris; compilation and basic testing done on HP UX, DNS cache, Windows Event Log containers / log files (via separate agent application), Latest version

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  miceno on Mar. 20^th 2013 4:39:15 PMReport

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  Link, Last update, Website, license, Input Sources, UNIX domain socket, UDP, TCP, RELP, RFC 3195/BEEP, kernel log, file, mark message generator as an optional input, Standard output (stdout) of an application, Named pipe, Handle multi-line messages like Apache Tomcat or Oracle log messages, Windows Event Log, Network (Protocol) Support, support for (plain) tcp based syslog, support for GSS-API, ability to limit the allowed network senders (syslog ACLs), support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp connections, udp syslog, syslog over RELP, truly reliable message delivery (Why is plain tcp syslog not reliable?), on the wire (zlib) message compression, support for receiving messages via reliable RFC 3195 delivery, support for TLS/SSL-protected syslog, support for IETF's new syslog-protocol draft, support for IETF's new syslog-transport-tls draft, support for IPv6, native ability to send SNMP traps, ability to preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains, Message Filtering, Filtering for syslog facility and priority, Filtering for hostname, Filtering for application, Filtering for message contents, Filtering for sending IP address, ability to filter on any other message field not mentioned above (including substrings and the like), support for complex filters, using full boolean algebra with and/or/not operators and parenthesis, Support for reusable filters: specify a filter once and use it in multiple selector lines no, support for arbritrary complex arithmetic and string expressions inside filters, ability to use regular expressions in filters, support for discarding messages based on filters, ability to filter out messages based on sequence of appearing, powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support, Supported Database Outputs, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, Microsoft SQL (Open TDS), Sybase (Open TDS), Firebird/Interbase, Ingres, mSQL, Enterprise Features, support for on-demand on-disk spooling of messages, ability to limit disk space used by spool files, each action can use its own, independant set of spool files, different sets of spool files can be placed on different disk, ability to process spooled messages only during a configured timeframe (e.g. only during off-peak hours, during peak hours they are enqueued only), ability to configure backup syslog/database servers, Professional Support, Config File, config file format, ability to include config file from within other config files, ability to include all config files existing in a specific directory, Extensibility, Functionality split in separately loadable modules, Support for third-party input plugins, Support for third-party output plugins, Other Features, ability to generate file names and directories (log targets) dynamically, control of log output format, including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data, native ability to send mail messages, good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339 second-resolution UTC zone, ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings, support for log files larger than 2gb, support for log file size limitation and automatic rollover command execution, support for running multiple syslogd instances on a single machine, ability to execute shell scripts on received messages, ability to pipe messages to a continously running program, massively multi-threaded for tomorrow's multi-core machines, ability to control repeated line reduction ("last message repeated n times") on a per selector-line basis, supports multiple actions per selector/filter condition, web interface, using text files as input source, rate-limiting output actions, discard low-priority messages under system stress, flow control (slow down message reception when system is busy), rewriting messages, output data into various formats, ability to control "message repeated n times" generation, supported platforms Linux, BSD, anecdotical seen on Solaris; compilation and basic testing done on HP UX, DNS cache, Windows Event Log containers / log files (via separate agent application)

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  miceno on Mar. 19^th 2013 7:15:10 PMReport

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  miceno on Mar. 19^th 2013 7:13:35 PMReport

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  Link, Last update, Website, license, Input Sources, UNIX domain socket, UDP, TCP, RELP, RFC 3195/BEEP, kernel log, file, mark message generator as an optional input, Windows Event Log, Network (Protocol) Support, support for (plain) tcp based syslog, support for GSS-API, ability to limit the allowed network senders (syslog ACLs), support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp connections, udp syslog, syslog over RELP, truly reliable message delivery (Why is plain tcp syslog not reliable?), on the wire (zlib) message compression, support for receiving messages via reliable RFC 3195 delivery, support for TLS/SSL-protected syslog, support for IETF's new syslog-protocol draft, support for IETF's new syslog-transport-tls draft, support for IPv6, native ability to send SNMP traps, ability to preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains, Message Filtering, Filtering for syslog facility and priority, Filtering for hostname, Filtering for application, Filtering for message contents, Filtering for sending IP address, ability to filter on any other message field not mentioned above (including substrings and the like), support for complex filters, using full boolean algebra with and/or/not operators and parenthesis, Support for reusable filters: specify a filter once and use it in multiple selector lines no, support for arbritrary complex arithmetic and string expressions inside filters, ability to use regular expressions in filters, support for discarding messages based on filters, ability to filter out messages based on sequence of appearing, powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support, Supported Database Outputs, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, Microsoft SQL (Open TDS), Sybase (Open TDS), Firebird/Interbase, Ingres, mSQL, Enterprise Features, support for on-demand on-disk spooling of messages, ability to limit disk space used by spool files, each action can use its own, independant set of spool files, different sets of spool files can be placed on different disk, ability to process spooled messages only during a configured timeframe (e.g. only during off-peak hours, during peak hours they are enqueued only), ability to configure backup syslog/database servers, Professional Support, Config File, config file format, ability to include config file from within other config files, ability to include all config files existing in a specific directory, Extensibility, Functionality split in separately loadable modules, Support for third-party input plugins, Support for third-party output plugins, Other Features, ability to generate file names and directories (log targets) dynamically, control of log output format, including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data, native ability to send mail messages, good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339 second-resolution UTC zone, ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings, support for log files larger than 2gb, support for log file size limitation and automatic rollover command execution, support for running multiple syslogd instances on a single machine, ability to execute shell scripts on received messages, ability to pipe messages to a continously running program, massively multi-threaded for tomorrow's multi-core machines, ability to control repeated line reduction ("last message repeated n times") on a per selector-line basis, supports multiple actions per selector/filter condition, web interface, using text files as input source, rate-limiting output actions, discard low-priority messages under system stress, flow control (slow down message reception when system is busy), rewriting messages, output data into various formats, ability to control "message repeated n times" generation, supported platforms Linux, BSD, anecdotical seen on Solaris; compilation and basic testing done on HP UX, DNS cache