Log pipeline
syslog-ng
One Identity
A syslog collector with cleaner config and built-in structured parsing (JSON/CSV/key-value) than rsyslog; an OSE edition plus a paid Premium.
- Category
- Log pipeline
- License
- Open core
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- Long-standing syslog alternative to rsyslog
The catch
The OSS edition lags the paid Premium Edition on some connectors, and the ecosystem recently split into syslog-ng vs the AxoSyslog fork.
Monitors
Logs
Protocols
Syslog
Built for
SRE / DevOpsEnterprise