Re: I am a novice on syslog-ng needs help.

Thank you for the information. What will be the best recommendation for the
syslog-ng in regards to the disk space and memory. I am pushing average of
60 Gigs of logs per day.

Thanks,


On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 2:01 PM Laszlo Varady (lvarady) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This project might also be interesting to you as it is based on syslog-ng:
> https://splunk.github.io/splunk-connect-for-syslog/main/
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>
> --
> László Várady
> ------------------------------
> *From:* syslog-ng <[email protected]> on behalf of
> Szilárd Parrag <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 20, 2022 16:54
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> Hi Alex,
>
> There's an APT repository for Debian based systems, see:
> https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng#installation-from-binaries
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> After that you should check out the Administration Guide:
>
> https://www.syslog-ng.com/technical-documents/list/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/3.36
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>
> Peter Czanik's syslog-ng blog contains small step-by-step tutorials, for
> example Splunk HEC:
>
> https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/splunk-hec-sending-logs-using-program-destination-syslog-ng
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>
> I hope this can you get started.
>
> Cheers,
> Szilard
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2022, 16:26 Alexandre Adao, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a novice on syslog-ng. I need some assistance on installing syslog-ng
> and looking for a good recommendation on step-by-step instructions for
> Ubuntu (prefered OS) or Windows environment. I googled it but I  My goal is
> to send the logs to splunk.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> --Alex
>
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