Hello everyone,

I have a problem with getting statistics from syslog-ng 3.0.5 (under Debian 5.0.4) using it's socket file.

In our configuration logs received by syslog-ng are being forwarded to python scripts (which in turn send logs to database). Since sometimes these scripts cannot handle the load, we want to monitor syslog-ng statistics for dropped logs. Currently, I run a script from cron which get statistics from syslog-ng socket file like this "echo STATS | socat - /var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl" and then parse output. Most of time it works great, but during peak times when number of logs get higher ( ~2000 logs/sec instead of ~1500 logs/sec), this cron script cannot get any output from statistics. Also this message appears in /var/log/syslog:
syslog-ng[21677]: Error writing control channel; error='Broken pipe (32)'

Is it possible to tune syslog-ng statistics somehow, or maybe there is a better way to get statistics?

Thanks,
Aleksei