Hi,

the issue with the internal stats() message is that if you have a lot of counters that message is truncated. Also, it is pretty difficult to parse.

So I would vote for the "poll syslog-ng-ctl and generate messages" solution.

BTW: the internal PE team did something in this area, they created some sort of internal source that does this polling, but I am not sure how that works. Possibly there's documentation :)

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Bazsi

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Scot <scotrn@gmail.com> wrote:

Doesn't stats_freq() set an interval to log stats to syslog already?

Description: The period between two STATS messages in seconds. STATS are log messages sent by syslog-ng, containing statistics about dropped log messages. Set to 0to disable the STATS messages.

So 

internal_src -> format > elasticsearch -> syslog-ng_stats index ?  

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca> wrote:

I have a perl script that collects some stats and logs them to syslog again. The syslog stream gets sent to ES, so they end up there, but as a syslog line, not a specific statistic item for things like grafana.

On 10/15/2017 05:57 PM, Scot wrote:

Hi,

  Looked around for a few hours and didn't see anything.

Has anyone worked on sending syslog-ng stats to ES ?
I see several ways I could but wondering if anyone has already. A push method directly from syslog-ng would be awesome.

Scot

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