Product features and benefits
New features in 3.3
- Multi-threaded architecture
- MongoDB support
- JSON support
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.
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
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.






