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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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Documentation updates for AxoSyslog, the cloud-native syslog-ng distribution: OpenTelemetry support, Splunk HEC destination, eBPF support, and new parsers

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 year of AxoSyslog, our drop-in 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

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