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syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.

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afsql: escaping the assembled statement in afsql_dd_run_query corrupts quoted values on MySQL Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5773 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
kqueue: `iv_fd_register_try()` always fails since the 4.12.0 ivykis submodule bump — `file()`/`pipe()` sources without `follow-freq()` cannot start Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5772 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Remaining autotools <-> cmake differences Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5760 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
persist-name() has no dedicated reference page in the 3.36 Administration Guide, and its role in destination reload/reconnect behavior (interaction with keep-alive()) is undocumented Open

bug documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#324 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Memory leak on syslog-ng-ctl reload — log_proto_buffered_server_apply_state and context_info_db_import allocations not released Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5750 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
diskq: qdisk_get_next_filename() scans 10,000 slots while the filename format addresses 100,000 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5748 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
linux-audit-parser mis-parses ENRICHED audit logs (0x1D separator) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5741 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 6, 2026
format-json: undefined output when a name is both a value and an object prefix (e.g. `a` and `a.b`) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5737 · Opened Jun 26, 2026
format-json: optional control over key order (currently fixed reverse-lexical) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5731 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Document how to write logs in RFC5424 format Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#306 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2026
Add compression to the `stats-exporter()` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5656 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
`optional()` setting inconsistency in affile Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5649 · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Catch all message parsing, processing errors Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5643 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Update outdated summary, instructions, etc. pages Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#292 · Opened Mar 9, 2026
value-pairs() option and template fomatting should handle `syslog` prefixed tags in the `scope(), exclude()` parameter Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5641 · Opened Mar 9, 2026
None existent date parsed to future value, time just turns around Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5640 · Opened Mar 9, 2026
contextual-data silently overwrites defined macros Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5617 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2026
Cleanup of the obsolete/deprecated references Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#253 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Allow NETLINK NFLOG/NFQUEUE as source. Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5542 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Further underflowing counters Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5528 · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Remove redundant port() option from openobserve-log() destination Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5466 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2025
New ID mismatches during building the doc Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#235 · Opened Sep 3, 2025
loggen tool from syslog-ng 4.8.2 when sending log via TLS doesn't send the SNI for the destination server hostname Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5430 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Define a macro alternative to ${SYSUPTIME} holding the actual uptime Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5418 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2025
Provide static, versioned documentation every time a new application release is created. Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#215 · Opened Jul 15, 2025
Error Initializing Message Pipeline Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5411 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Add VictoriaLogs destination for logs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5403 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Add a separate `stable` DBLD image generation Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5398 · Opened Jun 3, 2025
syslog-ng-ctl not shows any output and just hangs in AIX Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5329 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2025
rate-limit dropping messages randomly Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5295 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Add a decompression module as an exact pair for the existing compressor Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5235 · Opened Feb 21, 2025
The generated auto-link hint is broken for value-pairs() Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#167 · Opened Feb 20, 2025
Auto-link generation is still happening in some example code parts Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#166 · Opened Feb 20, 2025
value-pairs evaluation order lit does not contain all of the available options Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#165 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
helm chart compressor and daemon config not compatible Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5220 · Opened Feb 7, 2025
Using faketimelib on linux with a timer based ivykis poll method can cause timer event loss/freeze Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5166 · Opened Nov 5, 2024
reproducible Java builds Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5156 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2024
double quotes if string contains a space Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5141 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2024
The underscore in tag names from the XML parser should be possible to turn off Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5140 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Add cross-reference tables of the OSE modules, platforms, configure options, supported status. etc Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#140 · Opened Sep 24, 2024
Can we use macros in header of http destination? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5117 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2024
Add a macOS cmake build option to generate fixed path IDs in the produced binaries and dylibs instead of using rpath Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5111 · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Disable Linux-only modules on MacOS, even if they are enabled by configure args (since they fail) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5103 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2024
Building the release tar.gz arhive on case-insensitive file system (like the default one of macOS) is broken Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5101 · Opened Sep 14, 2024
elasticsearch-http: handle partial success of batch sending Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#132 · Opened Sep 11, 2024
format-cef-extension with --scope syslog Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#131 · Opened Sep 11, 2024
two destination, same source, one with parse and one with no-parse Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5089 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2024
lexer fix for slash strings Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#123 · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Unify and consolidate the process of module switching and package discovery across all CMake files. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng#5049 · Opened Jul 31, 2024
Link to legacy (3.x) documentation Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

syslog-ng/syslog-ng.github.io#115 · Opened Jul 30, 2024

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