Hi,

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021, 07:18 SIMON BABY <simonkbaby@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Team,

I am new to this group and I have a query on adding the throttle attribute in syslog-ng.conf file. My target is little slow to process all the messages sent by the sender and sometimes  the link connected to the target device is broken. I am thinking of slowing down the sender by adding the throttle attribute.

I have the below queries:

1) What exactly the throttle confoguration does?

It limits the number of syslog messages to be sent to the device per second.

The implementation allows short spikes of traffic where the short term rate is higher, but over a few second the average stabilizes to the value specified.

It uses a tbf like algorithm.

2) What does throttle(500) mean ? will it send 500 Bytes per second or 500 messages per second? What does the message here mean ? Can it be the entire message sent by the application ? Is there an upper limit and lower limit ?

500 messages, not bytes. The maximum message size can be controlled using the log-msg-size() option.

3) Any side effect of my system if I am going to use throttle().

If your input rate is higher than the output, syslog-ng would either need to store the incoming messages (memory or disk), backpressure to the source if possible (using flow control and a tcp based transport) or drop them.

There are a number of options that control this behavior.

flags(flow-control) to turn on flow control on a log path

log-fifo-size() for controlling the memory buffer size at the destination

disk-buffer() for allowing the excess to overflow to disk

transport(tcp) or transport(tls) on the source to select the transport protocol

4) Any other method  in syslog-ng to delay the logs sending at the sender?

Depending on your use-case a flow controlled path end-to-end (application, client-syslog-ng, server syslog-ng, final destination) could work too. In that case, syslog-ng would automatically converge to the amount of messages the destination is able to consume.

5) My destination configuration is below. Is it a valid configuration ?

destination logFiler { file("/var/log/wq.log"

    template("${FULLDATE}${TZ} ${HOST} ${PROGRAM} [$LEVEL] ${MSG}\n")

    template_escape(yes)

    throttle(500));};

This is, however this is a file() destination, where the throttle option may have limited use.

Thank you for your time.

Regards

Simon

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