Product features and benefits

New features in 3.3

  • Multi-threaded architecture
  • MongoDB support
  • JSON support

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See the cost benefits of syslog-ng PE usage over syslog-ng OSE

Server side

The syslog-ng application is a high-performance syslog server with advanced log processing services and direct database access.

Client side

The syslog-ng application focuses on secure and reliable log transfer.

syslog logging structure

Pattern DB™

The syslog-ng application is able to compare log messages to predefined patterns for real-time, high-performance message classification and tagging.

  • Easy to write and maintain (much easier than regular expressions)
  • Simple, clear and robust syntax
  • High-performance, scalable real-time processing
  • Extract relevant information from the messages
  • Correlate messages and events
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Live community

With over ten years since its beginning, the syslog-ng project gathered a significant amount of experts into a live community. Join us, let's work together!

Excellent documentation

BalaBit takes care to provide detailed and accurate manuals for syslog-ng. The documentation for recent and older versions of syslog-ng is available online.