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Tutorial: Sending impstats Metrics to Elasticsearch Using Rulesets and Queues

By rgheorghePosted on April 20, 2015May 30, 2018Posted in More complex scenariosTagged cee, disk-assisted queue, elasticsearch, Guides for rsyslog, impstats, json, monitoring, omelasticsearch, performance, queues, ruleset, tutorial

Originally posted on the Sematext blog: Monitoring rsyslog’s Performance with impstats and Elasticsearch If you’re using rsyslog for processing lots of logs (and, as we’ve shown before, rsyslog is good at processing lots of logs), you’re probably interested in monitoring it. To do that, you can use impstats, which comes from input module for process […]

Howto store remote messages in a separate file

By adisconteamPosted on June 3, 2013January 11, 2019Posted in Video TutorialsTagged config, file, format, legacy, messages, remote, separate, testing, tutorial, Video

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.