[syslog-ng] Number of syslogs received by syslog-ng

[Sandor Geller]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Jay <difficult_id at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Is there a mechanism to query the syslog-ng at regular intervals to find the number of syslogs received by it from the time it was started or number of syslogs received in the last one hour ?
>
> If it is possible to configure syslog-ng to send this information automatically at regular intervals that would help.

The stats_freq() parameter controls how often syslog-ng sends this
information through the internal() channel, you can store these logs
anywhere you want. In addition you can use 'syslog-ng-ctl stats' to
query the counters in real-time. The counters contain the number of
logs processed since startup so just subtract the previous results to
get the stats of the last interval.

hth,

Sandor