Adiscon is proud to announce the 4.3 release of MonitorWare Agent. This release contains some minor but useful features. Most important the debug output format has been enhanced. The new configuration client contains a DebugLog Viewer which lets you load and analyze the debug log in real-time. It is even possible to filter debug output […]
How to create debug information with strace
Strace is a tool to monitor system calls of an application. The output may be useful to trace what rsyslog is actually doing on the system level, if debug output information is not sufficient. A quick example to provide useful output would be: strace -T -ttt -f -o /path/filename rsyslogd There are a lot of […]
How to check if config variables are used?
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. […]