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February 23, 2026

Announcing NXLog Platform 1.11

We are happy to announce the latest release of NXLog Platform, version 1.11. This version focuses on operational visibility and compliance, smoother troubleshooting, and improved security and access controls. Want a quick overview? Watch a short demo showcasing the new features in this release: Read on for more details about these updates. Monitor data volume in the NXLog Platform UI You can now monitor the volume of inbound and outbound data flowing through your agents directly in the NXLog Platform UI, either from the agent statistics view or via the data flow visualization.

February 10, 2026

Adopting OpenTelemetry without changing your applications

A practical approach to converting existing logs into modern observability. OpenTelemetry promises a vendor-neutral standard for observability, consistent telemetry, and the flexibility to change backends without rewriting everything. In practice, however, OpenTelemetry adoption often runs into a familiar obstacle: reality. Here’s a common scenario. You’re eager to improve observability, but your environment includes a mix of legacy applications, network devices, and third-party systems. Many of these were never designed for modern instrumentation, and changing them is risky, expensive, or simply not an option.

February 2, 2026

Graylog vs ELK Stack: Unbiased comparison of log management tools

Centralized logging is no longer optional. Whether you’re troubleshooting production incidents, investigating suspicious activity, or meeting audit requirements, you need a way to collect logs from many sources, normalize them, search them quickly, and turn them into alerts and dashboards. In practice, that starts with reliable collection — often via solutions like NXLog Platform — so the data arrives clean and consistent. Two of the most common open-source paths people compare are Graylog vs ELK Stack.

January 29, 2026

The GeoServer breach that could have been stopped in hours, not weeks

How a federal agency’s monitoring gaps turned a containable incident into a three-week nightmare In September 2025, CISA responded to a federal agency breach that security teams could have stopped in hours. Instead, threat actors roamed the network undetected for three weeks. The damage? Multiple compromised servers, web shells planted across the infrastructure, and a persistent foothold that took significant resources to remediate. The root cause wasn’t a zero-day exploit or sophisticated malware.

January 9, 2026

Linux security monitoring with NXLog Platform: Extracting key events for better monitoring

From years of supporting NXLog Agent deployments across many environments, we’ve learned that while Linux generates a wealth of security logging, much of it remains underutilized. Critical security events are buried across multiple log files and subsystems, making it more complicated than it should be to spot suspicious activity. Efficient Linux security logging requires knowledge of which events matter and where to get them. Authentication attempts, privilege changes, package installations, audit events, and system shutdown events can all tell a story when viewed together.

January 5, 2026

Telemetry is evolving; is your business ready?

Some still think telemetry is a futuristic concept, but it isn’t. It’s already integral to the smooth running of everything from websites, e-commerce platforms and mobile apps to manufacturing, traffic control and much, much more. And it all begins with the humble data log. From the earliest days of computing, programmers have recorded useful information — often in a file — to help track and react to potential threats and understand what’s going on "under the hood" of their IT infrastructures.

December 18, 2025

Security advisory for CVE-2025-67900 affecting NXLog Agent 6.10 and older on Windows

We are committed to the security of our customers, and wish to inform you of CVE-2025-67900, a recently published vulnerability affecting the Windows version of NXLog Agent 6.10 and older. Technical description The Windows version of NXLog Agent 6.10.10368 and older includes a Privilege Escalation vulnerability because it attempts to load an OpenSSL configuration file from the hardcoded and unintended directory C:\nxlog4\x64\ on startup. This is a legacy installation directory that may not exist in clean NXLog Agent installations.

December 18, 2025

2025 and NXLog - a recap

As the new year looms large, we at NXLog are ready for one of the season’s most cherished traditions: reflecting on the year that ends. Coming off a 2024 that was centered on the NXLog Platform release, our 2025 was built on our analysis of the current state of the telemetry landscape. The main conclusion is that while telemetry data is essential for operations and security, 35% of organizations still struggle to collect it at scale.

December 12, 2025

rsyslog vs syslog-ng: Which is the right log shipper?

Well, no doubt logging is the nervous system of any IT infrastructure. From troubleshooting outages to satisfying compliance audits and threat management, having the right log management pipeline can make the difference between smooth operations and chaotic firefighting. For decades, syslog-ng and rsyslog have been two of the most widely used log management tools for Unix and Linux environments. Both provide implementations of the original 1980s syslog protocol and are designed to collect, process, and forward log messages across networks.

December 11, 2025

Announcing NXLog Platform 1.10

We are happy to announce the latest release of NXLog Platform, version 1.10. This update introduces streamlined TLS certificate management, broader operating system support, and simplified agent configuration. It will now be even faster and easier to deploy and operate your telemetry pipeline. Want a quick overview? Watch a short demo showcasing the new features in this release: Read on for more details about these updates. Centrally managed certificates for data destinations NXLog Platform 1.

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