White Paper: How to Configure Syslog-Ng™ PE to Cooperate With Splunk

Splunk is a popular search and analysis platform. Many users of Splunk also have syslog-ng™ deployed in their environments. This guideline describes scenarios in which Splunk users can benefit from syslog-ng™ Premium Edition features and offers some technical guidance to optimize the syslog-ng™ configuration.

Read this guide to see five use cases, including:
• Collecting logs from network devices
• Feeding multiple analysis tools
• Long-term log storage
• Advanced filtering on clients to reduce data load
• Multithread processing capabilities to meet the needs of the largest environments