Hello * is there any practicable solution with syslog-ng to avoid the following problem: 40 hosts have the same problem and flood the central loghost with the identical, many times repeated message to avoid this ideally one would need an equivalent to : "last message repeated n times" Questions: is there any possibility on the receiver (central loghost) to filter or drop multiple identical messages ? E.g. each hosts entry enters a centarl log only once or n times ? On sender side a ringbuffer filter perl script could be a solution: ringbuffer flushes identical messages in buffer and forwards it only one time for each count of messages. Has anyone more efficient solutions ? thanks Micha