[syslog-ng] Assessing reliability - did we get all messages?

[Bill Nash]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Cary, Kim wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to figure out whether we're getting all messages from a PIX into 
> the mysql database. I've done some tests and everything syslog-ng is writing 
> to disk is going to our db on the application server. Now I need to figure 
> out if syslog-ng is getting everything (or nearly) from the PIX.
>

You'll need to perform what amounts to empirical experimentation, here. In 
short, fork your logging to another logging platform and compare the 
results.

- billn