This sounds like logstash isn't fast enough in some cases and the relp window fills up. You can try to increase it:
http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/omrelp.html But that won't help if logstash can't keep up in general. The original problem went away? Rainer Sent from phone, thus brief. Am 21.05.2014 12:18 schrieb "Muhammad Asif" <[email protected]>: > Hi Everyone, > > We have configured rsyslog 7.6.3 and logstash on Desktop Machine (CPU: core > i3, RAM: 4GB). We have configured statistics on both rsyslog and logstash. > RELP is being used between both. When we sent 30716 logs in 10 sec from > LOIC, there is no loss on logstash but rsyslog sends 256 logs chunk to > logstash and a delay of about 3 sec is noticed between 256 logs chunk. > Similarly when we sent 68529, again no loss of logs on logstash and same > delay is noticed. Please find the attached pstats files of Desktop. > > We have performed the same activity on a Server machine (CPU: Xeon Quad > core, RAM 32 GB), no delay is noticed in this case. Everything is fine.On > server we are using rsyslogd 8.2. Why delay is not being noticed during > consecutive 256 logs chunk. > > Can you elaborate the reason of delay in Desktop case and can we increase > 256 logs chunk which rsyslog send to logstash. > > The server and desktop stats files are attached. > > Thanks > > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Rainer Gerhards > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:10 PM, masoom alam <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > are you asking for this? > > > > > > > > no. When you run impstats, you get statistics records. Without knowing > your > > config, I do not know how exactly they look and where they are written > to, > > but they contain the statistics data. I though that you quoted these > lines > > when you said "n records where received by rsyslog". What I would like to > > see is how many records were pushed to the forwarding action. That way we > > know how many were actually sent to logstash. > > > > If the stats are a bit unclear to you, I suggest reading: > > > > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/impstats.html > > > > and - at least as important - the links that go out to the page that > > describe the actual counters. There is a wealth of information in them in > > cases like these. > > > > Rainer > > > > see attachement > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > > DON'T LIKE THAT. > > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.

