[syslog-ng] Re: syslog-ng Digest, Vol 24, Issue 32

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:25 -0600, Fabian Pucciarelli wrote:
> I have syslog ng writing to a mysql pipe and then a little script
> reading the pipe and writing to the db. I currently receive many
> messages like the following, I wonder if somenone can help me figure
> out what this message is saying..... thanks. 
> 
> 
> | mailux | syslog   | notice   | notice | 2d   | 2007-04-13 | 01:16:40
> | syslog-ng | syslog-ng[30548]: Log statistics;
> dropped='pipe(/tmp/mysql.pipe)=0', processed='center(queued)=40295',
> processed='center(received)=13206',
> processed='destination(d_mysql)=40295', processed='source(net_tcp)=0',
> processed='source(src)=8962', processed='source(net_udp)=4244'  |
> 46674 | 

This contains the various message counters that syslog-ng maintains
internally. 

'processed' counters just count how much messages were processed at the
given point, 'dropped' counters indicate how much log messages were
dropped by syslog-ng itself.

The string in the parenthesis tell were the given counter is counting
inside syslog-ng.

'center' is the main log message dispatching mechanism, it received
13206 messages from various sources and then sent 40295 messages out,
e.g. you are probably sending individual messages to multiple
destinations.

You have two sources, one named 'src' generated 8962, the other called
'net_udp' 4244 messages.

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Bazsi