Thanks for the answer. Thats what i needed to know. And now I now that the nc of the server is too old, no -U option :P ________________________________ Von: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu]" im Auftrag von "Balint Kovacs [balint.kovacs@balabit.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013 11:09 An: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Betreff: Re: [syslog-ng] getting syslog stats without syslog-ng-ctl? Hi, it is quite easy, all that syslog-ng-ctl does is that it writes "STATS\n" into the syslog-ng control socket and displays the result. I'm not familiar with ruby, but I assume that basic Unix domain socket read/write is not that hard to do with it. With the use of netcat you can check that root@lyra:~# nc -U /var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl STATS SourceName;SourceId;SourceInstance;State;Type;Number center;;received;a;processed;0 destination;d_messages;;a;processed;751 src.internal;s_src#2;;a;processed;9 src.internal;s_src#2;;a;stamp;1357639178 destination;d_console_all;;a;processed;553 center;;queued;a;processed;0 destination;d_console;;a;processed;56 destination;d_xconsole;;a;processed;553 global;payload_reallocs;;a;processed;424 global;sdata_updates;;a;processed;0 global;msg_clones;;a;processed;0 source;s_src;;a;processed;7666 . ^C Balint Hello there, 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 :) ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq