DiscardTruncatedMsg

Discards the remaining part of a message after truncation.

This parameter applies to imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

Name:

DiscardTruncatedMsg

Scope:

input

Type:

boolean

Default:

input=off

Required?:

no

Introduced:

at least 5.x, possibly earlier

Description

When a message is split because it is too long the second part is normally processed as the next message. This can cause problems. When this parameter is turned on the part of the message after the truncation will be discarded.

Input usage

input(type="imptcp" discardTruncatedMsg="...")

See also

See also imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

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