syslog Replacements (UNIX)

  • nsyslog: nsyslog supports TCP connections for log transfer, and with SSL allows for encrypted delivery of syslog messages across the network. Contact Darren Reed for more information.
  • Flexible Logging: OSSP l2 - [From the abstract] OSSP l2 is a C library providing a very flexible and sophisticated Unix logging facility. It is based on the model of arbitrary number of channels, stacked together in a
    top-down data flow tree structure with filtering channels in internal nodes and output channels on the leaf nodes.

  • sysklogd The sysklogd package implements two system log daemons. The syslogd daemon is the general system logging daemon which is responsible for handling requests for syslog services. This version of syslogd is similar to the standard Berkeley product but with a number of compatible extensions. The klogd daemon runs either standalone or as a client of syslogd. Klogd ‘listens’ to kernel log messages, prioritizes them, and routes them to either output files or to syslogd.
  • Secure syslog tools
  • socklog: Gerrit Pape’s small, secure replacement for syslog.
  • algr: a reliable, robust and high performance event logging mechanism.
  • Snare: An audit event collection, analysis, reporting and archive service, and security ‘agents’ for multiple operating systems and applications.
  • multilog: Dan Bernstein’s high performance, high reliability local replacement for syslog