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Adiscon is proud to announce the 4.1 release of MonitorWare Agent. Rsyslog Windows Agent is now able to reload it’s configuration automatically if enabled (Which is done by the configuration client automatically on first start). It is not necessary to restart the service manually anymore. Performance enhancing options have been added into EventLog Monitor V1 […]
Original post: Scalable and Flexible Elasticsearch Reindexing via rsyslog by @Sematext This recipe is useful in a two scenarios: migrating data from one Elasticsearch cluster to another (e.g. when you’re upgrading from Elasticsearch 1.x to 2.x or later) reindexing data from one index to another in a cluster pre 2.3. For clusters on version 2.3 […]
Original post: Monitoring rsyslog with Kibana and SPM by @Sematext A while ago we published this post where we explained how you can get stats about rsyslog, such as the number of messages enqueued, the number of output errors and so on. The point was to send them to Elasticsearch (or Logsene, our logging SaaS, […]
Original post: Recipe: rsyslog + Kafka + Logstash by @Sematext This recipe is similar to the previous rsyslog + Redis + Logstash one, except that we’ll use Kafka as a central buffer and connecting point instead of Redis. You’ll have more of the same advantages: rsyslog is light and crazy-fast, including when you want it […]
In this ~8 minute video Rainer Gerhards describes Howto store remote messages in a separate file. It’s actually one of the most frequently asked question on rsyslog forum and mailing list. Note: the tutorial is for legacy config format in order to help most people gain benefit from it.
We have often seen the case, that someone has rsyslog running and makes changes to the configuration. And usually, after making the changes, rsyslog gets restarted, but the changed config is invalid. rsyslog has a function to check the configuration for validity. This can be done very easily by invoking this command: rsyslogd -N1 (Note […]
Sometimes you might wonder, if the configuration you created is really used. At least parts of it. This could really happen in a lot of situations. Currently, the config format is changed a lot. This forces users who want to use the new format to use a mixed mode of old and new config style. […]
Version 6.3.7 [DEVEL] 2012-02-02 imported refactored v5.9.6 imklog linux driver, now combined with BSD driver removed imtemplate/omtemplate template modules, as this was waste of time The actual input/output modules are better copy templates. Instead, the now-removed modules cost time for maintenance AND often caused confusion on what their role was. added new stats objects improved […]
This is a very important milestone release. It features the new config parser and thus provides the basis for a more intuitive config format. With 6.3.3 there are already some enhancements to the format. However, more changes will come up with the next minor releases. For details, please check this link: http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-3-3-config-format-improvements/ It is worth […]
Download file name: rsyslog 6.3.3 (devel) rsyslog 6.3.3 (devel) md5sum: f0ef4a1760eaf4498fba3f5bdc969d8e Author: Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards@adiscon.com) Version: 6.3.3 File size: 2.4 MB Download this file now!