The syslog-ng module incubator (Incubator henceforth) is a collection of tools and modules for syslog-ng that for one reason or the other, are not part of the official repository. This serves both as a staging ground for experimental modules, and as a repository of plugins that are not aimed at upstream inclusion. It's also an example of a third party syslog-ng module.

• Lua destination: This destination is really just a wrapper, that allows one to write destination drivers in Lua, with some limitations.

• Perl destination: This destination allows one to write destination plugins in Perl.

• Trigger source: A very simple example source that periodically generates a message. Useful mostly for debugging purposes.

• Monitor source: A module similar to the trigger source, except it dispatches to a Lua function to generate the message.

• Extra template functions: Extra template functions, such as $(//) which is floating-point division, as opposed to the built-in $(/) (integer division).

  Functions:

  • // : floating point division
  • state : gets or sets global state from template function.

• RSS destination: A very simple destination module that allows one to offer log messages as an RSS feed.

• logmongource: A log visualisation tool that extracts messages from a MongoDB collection, and visualises them with Gource.

• Kafka destination: A simple, work in progress destination that allows syslog-ng to send events to the Apache Kafka distributed queue.

• Grok parser: Grok is an advanced pattern format (like PatternDB) used primarily by LogStash, which allows users to parse unstructured data into a structured format. This module allows syslog-ng users to use Grok patterns, too.

  Grok C parser for grok.

• 0MQ source/destination: ZeroMQ is a simple, high-speed messaging protocol. These drivers allows syslog-ng to send/receive logs from ZeroMQ message brokers.

  0MQ message protocol.

Installing the modules and tools follows the usual autotools way:

$ git clone git://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator.git
$ cd syslog-ng-incubator
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure && make && make install

Of course, one will need all the dependencies (syslog-ng, bison, flex, libmongo-client, lua, perl, rdkafka; of which the latter six are optional) installed too.

Copyright (C) 2011-2017 BalaBit IT Security Ltd., Gergely Nagy algernon@balabit.hu, Viktor Tusa tusa@balabit.hu, Viktor Juhasz viktor.juhasz@balabit.com, Attila Szalay sasa@ubainba.hu and other contributors; released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (or later).