On 03/14/2011 02:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Martin,

   The part I struggled with at first is the data is going to be converted into 
a rate - so the number represents Transactions per second.  I found on my use 
of tail I needed to increase the polling interval so that enough transactions 
were caught between polls to actually create meaningful data points.

In the global section I went to:
Interval 300

10,000 records in an hour would still only be 3 tps

In my tail match section using:
       DSType "CounterInc"
       Type "invocations"

Hope it helps


Hi Bob,

It looks like "invocations" is the same type as "derive." I think what I missed was that division by time -- that it's a rate, like you said. So what I'm seeing is "log lines per second" which makes sense for those numbers between 1-5.

I'm going to do two matches to solve my problem:

LoadPlugin "tail"
<Plugin "tail">
  <File "/var/log/shibboleth-idp/idp-audit.log">
    Instance "idp_audit_log"
    <Match>
      Regex ".*"
      DSType "CounterInc"
      Type "derive"
      Instance "rate"
    </Match>
    <Match>
      Regex ".*"
      DSType "CounterInc"
      Type "log_hits"
      Instance "count"
    </Match>
  </File>
</Plugin>

Thanks for the clarification -- perhaps I will try to contribute some to the documentation effort.

Cheers,
--
Martin B. Smith
[email protected] - (352) 273-1374
CNS/Open Systems Group
University of Florida

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