If you use Debian's packaged syslog-ng beware that you may have this set in your Debian 13 /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf: stats(freq(1)); This was briefly introduced and then removed. You probably don't want it if you have it - daemon stats would be logged every second. Debian does not install syslog-ng by default and many may be installing packages from elsewhere or from source, so hopefully this does not have a wide impact. Where it was added: <https://github.com/gcsideal/syslog-ng-debian/commit/319fd669944def7dbb1bc507d85e254443a63d31> Where it was removed: <https://github.com/gcsideal/syslog-ng-debian/commit/f7ee172d62009cc6b5e6a62d51482c3274249e8e> John