<div dir="auto">Hi,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It seems indeed ugly. We do have a FILE_NAME macro that gets set to the name of the file the message was read from.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With a quick search I didn't find it documented.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 8, 2017 07:27, "Jorge Pereira" <<a href="mailto:jpereiran@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpereiran@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Team,</div><div><br></div><div>Well, I am working on a POC using the syslog-ng 3.7.1, basically, I have many of log files that the filename is /path/<file> and I need to append the file name into the syslog payload.</div><div><br></div><div>My current approach is.</div><div><br></div><div>1. I have the below destination() receiving the file name as a parameter. </div><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div>block destination d_collector_with_fn(__<wbr>filename("")) {</div><div>    tcp("192.168.2.44"</div><div>        port(514)</div><div>        keep-alive(on)</div><div>        template("$DATE $HOST $MSGHDR $(format-json --scope selected_macros             \</div><div>                                                    --exclude TAGS                      \</div><div>                                                    --exclude DATE                      \</div><div>                                                    --exclude PRIORITY                  \</div><div>                                                    --exclude FACILITY                  \</div><div>                                                    --exclude SOURCEIP                  \</div><div>                                                    --exclude PROGRAM                   \</div><div>                                                    --pair SYSLOG_WEBAPP_DOMAIN='`__<wbr>filename`'  \</div><div>                                                    --pair SOURCE=${SOURCE}</div><div>        )\n")</div><div>        template-escape(no)</div><div>    );  </div><div>};</div><div></snip></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. My simple script called by confgen create some dynamic "log {}" statements listening to the files and appending the filename as a parameter to the d_collector_with_fn()</div><div><br></div><div><snip></div><div>log {</div><div>        source {</div><div>                file("/path/<a href="http://thisisafile001.net" target="_blank">thisisafile001.net</a><wbr>"</div><div>                        program_override("mytag")</div><div>                        follow_freq(1)</div><div>                        flags(no-parse)</div><div>                );</div><div>        };</div><div>        destination {</div><div>                d_collector_with_fn(__<wbr>filename("<a href="http://thisisafile001.net" target="_blank">thisisafile001.net</a>")<wbr>);</div><div>        };</div><div>};</div><div><br></div><div>log {</div><div>        source {</div><div>                file("<a href="http://caipirinha4ever.net" target="_blank">caipirinha4ever.net</a>"</div><div>                        program_override("mytag")</div><div>                        follow_freq(1)</div><div>                        flags(no-parse)</div><div>                );</div><div>        };</div><div>        destination {</div><div>                d_collector_with_fn(__<wbr>filename("<a href="http://caipirinha4ever.net" target="_blank">caipirinha4ever.net</a>"<wbr>));</div><div>        };</div><div>};</div><div><br></div><div>.........................</div><div></snip></div><div><br></div><div>But, I have more than 5k files and my current approach creating multiples log { } statement resulting in one connection to the collector by each file!!! in this case, I have 5k connections... this is terrible, someone has some other suggestion? exist some way to catch the filename by some internal ${variable} and pass for a single destination()?</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Jorge Pereira</div>
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