we are plotting and monitoring lot of data and for this I'm using a little bash script which does sum up the output of syslog-ng-ctl. But this is kind of slow with 17k lines to parse :P

Is there a way to get the stats directly without syslog-ng-ctl? My goal is to write a ruby script which only parse the stats i'm needing. 

I'm no developer so please answer admin friendly :)