This guide is a work-in-progress document with new versions appearing periodically.
The latest version of this document can be downloaded from the syslog-ng Documentation page.
Changes in syslog-ng Premium Edition (syslog-ng PE) version 6.0.20
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Starting from syslog-ng PE version 6.0.20 and after 31 July 2020, only AIX 7 platform and syslog-ng Agent for Windows are supported. For further details about supported platforms, see Supported platforms.
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Acknowledgments
One Identity would like to express its gratitude to the syslog-ng users and the syslog-ng community for their invaluable help and support.
Chapter 1. Introduction to syslog-ng
This chapter introduces the syslog-ng Premium Edition application in a non-technical manner, discussing how and why is it useful, and the benefits it offers to an existing IT infrastructure.
The syslog-ng Premium Edition (syslog-ng PE) application is a flexible and highly scalable system logging application that is ideal for creating centralized and trusted logging solutions. Among others, syslog-ng PE allows you the following.
The syslog-ng application is not log analysis software. It can filter log messages and select only the ones matching certain criteria. It can even convert the messages and restructure them to a predefined format, or parse the messages and segment them into different fields. But syslog-ng cannot interpret and analyze the meaning behind the messages, or recognize patterns in the occurrence of different messages.
