Re: Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-06 Thread Gergely Nagy
Hi! I'm the mentor for the Riak destination for syslog-ng project, please allow me to answer the questions below: > "Fred" == Fred Dushin writes: Fred> As far as I understand, you're talking about a mapping from keys to Fred> sets, but I'm unclear on a few things. The idea is to ma

Re: Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-05 Thread Fred Dushin
First off, Parth, this is a really exciting project, and I'm glad you're taking it on. As an SIEM refugee, I have a few questions about the proposal and a few thoughts about syslog, generally, and that may help you work out some of your thoughts about data types and how you plan to structure da

Re: Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-05 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Christopher" == Christopher Meiklejohn writes: >> The intention is to store log messages in each element of the set: >> either as a string (syslog or json, or whatever else the user sees fit), >> or as a map of key-value pairs (where values themselves can be maps >> too).

Re: Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-05 Thread Christopher Meiklejohn
> On May 5, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Gergely Nagy > wrote: > >> "Christopher" == Christopher Meiklejohn writes: > >Christopher> I’m a bit concerned with your use of the set embedded in the >Christopher> map. > > The original idea was to use a Set directly. The Set-in-Map thing was > jus

Re: Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-05 Thread Gergely Nagy
> "Christopher" == Christopher Meiklejohn writes: Christopher> I’m a bit concerned with your use of the set embedded in the Christopher> map. The original idea was to use a Set directly. The Set-in-Map thing was just a thought experiment (Map-in-Set would make more sense). Chris

Re: Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-03 Thread Christopher Meiklejohn
> On May 2, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Parth Oberoi wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > My proposal[0] for adding Riak as a destination to Syslog-ng was accepted for > GSoC2015, so before my coding period begins i.e. 25th May, I wanted to do > some ground work and take some feedback from the potential user

Feedback for GSoC project - RIak Destination for Syslog-ng

2015-05-02 Thread Parth Oberoi
Hello Everyone, My proposal[0] for adding Riak as a destination to Syslog-ng was accepted for GSoC2015, so before my coding period begins i.e. 25th May, I wanted to do some ground work and take some feedback from the potential users. The proposal[0] contains all the initial implementation details