I was expecting that even without a buffer that nxlog would reconnect to
it's outputs once the target started accepting connections again.
Botond, do you have any plans to support Redis or RabbitMQ(AMPQ) as an
output?
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Mark D. Nagel <mna...@willingminds.com>wrote:
> On 8/1/2013 5:49 PM, DMF Lists wrote:
> > I'm setup to ship windows logs to a central linux host running nxlog via
> native
> > transport which then ships it off to logstash via generic TCP. If
> logstash backs up or
> > dies and it's caught immediately and restarted, the nxlog transport
> chain seems to
> > survive. However, if logstash is stopped for a long period of time ie a
> few hours, not
> > all windows nxlog clients will reconnect properly. The nxlog logs just
> show the
> > following mutiple times:
> >
> > 2013-03-27 14:49:59 ERROR couldn't connect to tcp socket on logger1:514
> No connection
> > could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
> > 2013-03-27 14:50:00 INFO reconnecting in 10 seconds
> >
> > Once I restart the nxlog client on the windows side, it starts logging
> again. Any thoughts?
>
> I believe this is a use case for pm_buffer -
>
> http://nxlog-ce.sourceforge.net/nxlog-docs/en/nxlog-reference-manual.html#pm_buffer.
> You
> just need to figure out how much disk storage to reserve for your worst
> case.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
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