HealthCheckTimeout

Milliseconds to wait for an HTTP health check before sending events.

This parameter applies to omelasticsearch: Elasticsearch Output Module.

Name:

HealthCheckTimeout

Scope:

action

Type:

integer

Default:

action=3500

Required?:

no

Introduced:

at least 8.x, possibly earlier

Description

Before logging begins, rsyslog issues an HTTP HEAD to /_cat/health and waits up to this many milliseconds for HTTP OK.

Action usage

action(type="omelasticsearch" HealthCheckTimeout="...")

See also

See also omelasticsearch: Elasticsearch Output Module.

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