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AxoSyslog: the syslog-ng fork built by its original developers. Secure, supported, binary-compatible log management with enterprise features.

AxoSyslog, our syslog-ng fork, moves to a single clear open source license: GPL-3.0-or-later. What changes for users and contributors.

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

Open source tools have fed SIEMs for decades. Why existing open source logging deployments remain key to the future observability data supply chain.

Monitor syslog-ng or AxoSyslog with Prometheus using axosyslog-metrics-exporter. Diagnose message drops and pipeline issues quickly.

How syslog works: message format, severity levels, facilities, transport over UDP, TCP, and TLS, plus reliability mechanisms like buffering.

The starting point of our comprehensive syslog guide, that starts from the basics and covers every aspect of syslog collection, transport, and scaling

AxoSyslog 4.9 adds ClickHouse as a destination: send logs directly to your self-hosted ClickHouse database for efficient storage and analysis.

Six months into AxoSyslog, the binary-compatible syslog-ng fork: development activity, new features, and what's ahead for the project.

Upgrade syslog-ng to AxoSyslog in minutes with no configuration changes. What the drop-in replacement means and how the migration works.

Republishing syslog-ng documentation in a new format, under the AxoSyslog Core name to comply with the syslog-ng Open Source Edition documentation license

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.

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

syslog-ng in 2023: new features (OpenTelemetry, Google Pub/Sub, Splunk, Grafana Loki, Amazon S3, OpenObserve drivers), contributions, and other developments

How syslog is used in production across operating systems, network devices, and applications, plus common SIEM and observability integrations.