[Fwd: [syslog-ng]feature request to Stats ouput]

[Jay Guerette]

No comment on the potential issue.... just a 'me too'.

I'd love to see a 'processed' count. My syslog server is processing
about 10M lines/day, by my best estimate, but would like to know more
precisely. A byte count would be nice, too; currently about 1.2GB day.
I'd like to generate RRD graphs, if I could get that data.

I tried writing a couple programs to do line & byte counts, and set it
up as a 'program' destination, but it would sometimes drop stuff when
it looked away from it's input long enough to write the stats to a
log. Probably when the there was a burst well above the ~ 115
messages/sec average.

User-specified destinations & macro/template formating for stats
output would be fantastic!

> Stats: dropped is great, would this be better?:
> Stats:  x processed y buffered/queued z dropped
> 
> * I'm seeing syslog-ng process sizes in 20-30MB and am wondering if my
> queue sizes should be upped.