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syslog-ng.com is the company blog at syslog-ng.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts concern syslog-ng, a logging tool. Comments discuss its relaunch, config format, multi-line message support and resource use. No comment judges the blog writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Marcus J. Ranum's "Artificial Ignorance" concept is pretty good. I did an implementation and have been running it for more than 10 years: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/ai/ Someone's also done a Python implementation: https://github.com/lchamon/ai ...and it looks like there's one in syslog-ng Premium Edition: https://syslog-ng.com/documents/html/syslog-ng-pe-latest-gui...
Comment linking /documents/html/syslog-ng-pe-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-pe-guide-admin/html/concepts-artificial-ignorance.html
on “Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?”Submitted The syslog-ng Insider 2025-08: HDFS; configuration; Prometheus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for the kind words. config format and documentation is an oft mentioned good side of syslog-ng, but good points on memory and CPU usage. Multi-line messages are supported by syslog-ng but only with transports that also support it. RFC5424 transports generally do. UDP does too (but there are other problems with that). We can also "join-up" messages spanning multiple lines from files (using regexps or line inde…
Comment linking /technical-documents/doc/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/3.26/administration-guide/multi-line-prefix
on “Syslog-Ng Relaunch”Submitted Upgrade problems from syslog-ng 3 to 4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The core values of syslog-ng as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned about syslog-ng performance using sngbench as a story · 1 points
HN discussion